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Fictile

adjective

Of or relating to the craft of pottery. "Fictile ware"

Susceptible to being led or directed. Synonym: pliable.

Capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material). Synonyms: moldable, plastic.

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"Fictile" Quotes from Famous Books

... which they call rock-butter, as a bait. The animals scent this clay from afar, and are fond of the smell; as the clays of bucaro, known in Portugal and Spain by the name of odoriferous earths (tierras olorosas), have an odour agreeable to women.* (* Bucaro (vas fictile odoriferum). People are fond of drinking out of these vessels on account of the smell of the clay. The women of the province of Alentejo acquire a habit of masticating the bucaro earth; and feel a great privation ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt

... in his own library, as he describes it, we find the delicate fictile vase of the Greek, with its exquisitely painted figures and the faint [Greek text which cannot be reproduced] finely traced upon its side, and behind it hangs an engraving of the 'Delphic Sibyl' of Michael ...

— Intentions • Oscar Wilde

... arts are, in their earlier stages, to a large extent, vessel making arts, the one being functionally the offshoot of the other. The textile art is the parent, and, as I have already shown, develops within itself a geometric system of ornament. The fictile art is the offshoot and has within itself no predilection for decoration. It is dependent and plastic. Its forms are to a great extent modeled and molded within the textile shapes and acquire automatically some of the decorative surface characters ...

— A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament • William H. Holmes