Obs. [a. L. fictor, agent-n. f. fingĕre to fashion.] One who frames or fashions; esp. an artist or modeller in clay, etc.
1665. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 139. Near the stair are the figures of four strange Beasts carved in stone; not such Beasts as are in Nature, but rather as issue from the Poets or Fictors brains.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. 420. The whole of the New Creature … is to be ascribed to Christ … as the Creator, Fictor and Effector thereof.
[1824. Elmes, Dict. Fine Arts, Fictor, in ancient art an artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in clay. (Hence in mod. Dicts.).]
