FACTITIOUS
\faktˈɪʃəs], \faktˈɪʃəs], \f_a_k_t_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_s]\
Definitions of FACTITIOUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste.
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Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste.
By Noah Webster.
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Artificial; sham; not natural.
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Factitiousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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That which is made by art, in opposition to what is natural, or found already existing in nature. Thus, we say, factitious mineral waters, for artificial mineral waters.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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