fictile Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective of or relating to the craft of pottery
    • the fictile art
    • fictile ware
  2. adjective satellite susceptible to being led or directed
    pliable.
    • fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda
  3. adjective satellite capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)
    moldable; plastic.
    • plastic substances such as wax or clay

WordNet

Fic"tile adjective
Etymology
L. fictilis. See Fiction.
Definitions
  1. Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.
    Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth. Bacon.
    The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art. C. Wordsworth.
    -- Fic"tile*ness, n. -- Fic*til"i*ty n.

Webster 1913