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
The inferiority of their religious architecture was due to the natural formation of their country, which restricted them almost entirely to the use of a fictile material.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
Impressions upon pottery represent a class of work utilized in the fictile arts.
From Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425 by William Henry Holmes
When the remains were burned, a fictile vessel was used to contain the ashes.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
They take a high place among American fictile products for grace of form and beauty of decoration.
From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by William Henry Holmes
