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Fiction
Fiction Fic"tion, n. [F. fiction, L. fictio, fr. fingere, fictum to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign.] 1. The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind. --Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality. The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. --Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. --Macaulay. 3. Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances. The office of fiction as a vehicle of instruction and moral elevation has been recognized by most if not all great educators. --Dict. of Education. 4. (Law) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. --Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn: Fabrication; invention; fable; falsehood. Usage: Fiction, Fabrication. Fiction is opposed to what is real; fabrication to what is true. Fiction is designed commonly to amuse, and sometimes to instruct; a fabrication is always intended to mislead and deceive. In the novels of Sir Walter Scott we have fiction of the highest order. The poems of Ossian, so called, were chiefly fabrications by Macpherson.
Fictional
Fictional Fic"tion*al, a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.``Fictional rather than historical.' --Latham.
Fictionist
Fictionist Fic"tion*ist, n. A writer of fiction. [R.] --Lamb.
Fictious
Fictious Fic"tious, a. Fictitious. [R.] --Prior.

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- Alighieri in his De vulgari eloquentia defined the troubadour lyric as fictio rethorica musicaque poita: rhetorical, musical, and poetical fiction. After...
- "teleological" goals as "fictions" in the sense that Hans Vaihinger spoke of (fictio). Usually there is a fictional final goal which can be deciphered alongside...
- first chapter to Das Kapital that "In bourgeois societies the economic fictio juris prevails, that every one, as a buyer, possesses an encyclopaedic knowledge...
- person of the pater or the princeps. What was evidently an ideology or a fictio aiming to be the groundwork of auctoritas' preeminence or, at least, specific...
- the remission of sin as necessary for justification, but this is only a fictio iuris; in fact, a catechumen before baptism, or a penitent before absolution...
- 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing". "Best Middle-Grade Fantasy & Science Fictio..." Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved August 7, 2020. release, Access to Booklist...
- Apparizioni, fantasmi e altre ‘ombre’ in morte e resurrezione dello Stato. Fictio, allegoria e strategie oratorie nella pro Milone di Cicerone, in: Moretti...
- ISBN 0-674-62732-6. https://readingcalifornia.typepad.com/reading_california_fictio/2006/09/valley_people.html [bare URL] STAFF, REGISTER (May 16, 2021). "Rebecca...
- London: E. Arnold, 1964. pp. 118–44. Stephenson, William. "The AcrosticFictio” in Robert Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid (Lines 58–63)," Chaucer...
- complete "expropriation" advocated by Francis of ****isi, the popes adopted the fictio juris of ****uming to themselves the ownership of all goods bestowed upon...