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.

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 Armstrong, Walter, Sir

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

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Greek embroideries we can perfectly appreciate, by studying Hope’s “Costumes of the Ancients,” and the works of Millingen and others; also the fictile vases in the British Museum and elsewhere.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

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

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various