fictile
Example Sentences
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For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
We learn this from the paintings on Greek fictile vases.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
From him Francesco Xanto caught Something of his transcendent grace, And into fictile fabrics wrought Suggestions of the master's thought.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Then we meet him in the Vedas, the Being by whom the fictile vase is formed; the clay out of which it is fabricated.
From The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi by Sir Richard Francis Burton
It was much used for the ornamentation of friezes and interiors, for the decoration of fictile vases, the borders of dresses, &c.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
