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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fictile
    adj 1: of or relating to the craft of pottery; "the fictile
           art"; "fictile ware"
    2: susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of
       people ripe for propaganda" [syn: fictile, pliable]
    3: capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or
       clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax
       or clay" [syn: fictile, moldable, plastic]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fictile \Fic"tile\, a. [L. fictilis. See Fiction.]
   Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art;
   relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.
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         Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth.
                                                  --Bacon.
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         The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art. --C.
                                                  Wordsworth.
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   Fictile ware, ware made of any material which is molded or
      shaped while soft; hence, pottery of any sort. --
      Fic"tile*ness, n. -- Fic*til"i*ty, n.
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