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Fictile

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the craft of pottery.  "Fictile ware"
2.
Susceptible to being led or directed.  Synonym: pliable.
3.
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


Words linked to "Fictile" :   susceptible, elastic, pottery


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