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Grammar : Adj
Spell : fak-tish-uh s
Phonetic Transcription : fækˈtɪʃ əs



Définition of factitious

Origin :
  • 1640s, from Latin factitius "artificial," from factus, past participle of facere "do" (source of French faire, Spanish hacer), from PIE root *dhe- "to put, to do" (cf. Sanskrit dadhati "puts, places;" Avestan dadaiti "he puts;" Old Persian ada "he made;" Hittite dai- "to place;" Greek tithenai "to put, set, place;" Lithuanian deti "to put;" Polish dziać się "to be happening;" Russian delat' "to do;" Old High German tuon, German tun, Old Saxon, Old English don "to do;" Old Frisian dua, Old Swedish duon, Gothic gadeths "a doing;" Old Norse dalidun "they did").
  • adj unnatural
Example sentences :
  • What is this farcical, factitious glamour that will not bear the light of day?
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • It was a factitious strength, the restlessness of incipient insanity.
  • Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • He was in that state of factitious discontent which belongs to us amiable English.
  • Extract from : « Stories of Comedy » by Various
  • In these cases, it is not merely that everything is exaggerated, but everything is factitious.
  • Extract from : « Tancred » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Indeed it has created a factitious interest in da Vinci's masterwork.
  • Extract from : « The Merry-Go-Round » by Carl Van Vechten
  • At the next he thought with factitious solemnity: 'Yes, my boy!
  • Extract from : « Five Tales » by John Galsworthy
  • This appears to me an insoluble question, and probably, even, a factitious one.
  • Extract from : « The Mind and the Brain » by Alfred Binet
  • The end is not violent or factitious, it is necessary and inevitable.
  • Extract from : « The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory » by George Saintsbury
  • The officers of the society were to be known only by factitious (sic) names.
  • Extract from : « The Chronicles of Newgate, v. 2/2 » by Arthur Griffiths
  • Factitious cinnabar, Red sulphide of mercury, Red sulphuret of mercury.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley

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