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Fictive definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FIC'TIVE, a. Feigned. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham]
2: capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1612 1. not genuine ; feigned 2. of, relating to, or capable of imaginative creation 3. of, relating to, or having the characteristics of fiction ; fictional • fictively adverb • fictiveness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 creating or created by imagination. 2 not genuine. Derivatives: fictively adv. fictiveness n. Etymology: F fictif -ive or med.L fictivus (as FICTILE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fictive Fic"tive, a. [Cf. F. fictif.] Feigned; counterfeit. ``The fount of fictive tears.'' --Tennyson.