fictile

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"Jupiter angusta vix totus stabat in �de; Inque Jovis dextra fictile fulmen erat."

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

In the first none of the fictile ware was turned on the wheel or fire-baked.

From The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices by Anonymous

The study of the fictile art of the potter, even from the theoretical side alone, cannot fail to quicken and broaden education.

From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by Cox, George J.

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The fictile art is the offshoot and has within itself no predilection for decoration.

From A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by Holmes, William Henry