Definitions for fictile

fictile fic·tile

Spelling: [fik-tl; British fik-tahyl]
IPA: /ˈfɪk tl; British ˈfɪk taɪl/

Fictile is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in fictile (cefiilt).

Definitions for fictile

adjective

  1. capable of being molded.
  2. made of earth, clay, etc., by a potter.
  3. of or relating to pottery.

Origin of fictile

1620-30; Latin fictilis earthen (literally, moldable), equivalent to fict(us) shaped (past participle of fingere) + -ilis -ile

Examples for fictile

They take a high place among American fictile products for grace of form and beauty of decoration.

It was much used for the ornamentation of friezes and interiors, for the decoration of fictile vases, the borders of dresses, &c.

The first and most obvious subdivision which the early British fictile ware admits of, is into hand-made and wheel-made pottery.

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

fictile, fik′til, adj. used or fashioned by the potter, plastic.

Ovid, Fasti i. 201, says that the god had in his hand a fictile fulmen.

In fictile art, in fictile history, it is equally exemplary.

Many others of the Indian tribes practised the fictile art, very few, so far as is known, being entirely ignorant of it.

For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures.

Figuline, fig′ū-lin, adj. such as is made by the potter, fictile.

Word Value for fictile
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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