[L. fierī, inf. to be made, come into being. Cf. in esse, in posse.] Used in med.L. phrase in fieri: in process of being made or coming into being. † Formerly sometimes treated as an Eng. phrase, as in the fieri, in our very fieri.
1640. Bp. Hall, Episc., I. ii. 8. The depraved estate of the Roman Church, then in the fieri of Reforming.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 117. Many of these formed stones seem now to be in fieri.
1681. Relig. Clerici, 5. There is a certain magical influence of nature … that tempers us all diversly in our very fieri.
1726. A. Horneck, in Glanvill’s Sadducismus, 363. The things then being in fieri, when it [the book] was printed.
1832. Austin, Jurispr., II. (1885), 910. The contract is still in fieri, as between obligor and obligee.
