See Also: FICTITIOUS Pretended; supposed; as, fictitious actions; fictitious payee(law)
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fictitious feeding(medicine)
Fictitious trading(finance)
Fictitious credit(finance)
Fictitious credit(money)
Fictitious Business Name(law)
FICTITIOUS ACTIONS, Practice(law)
FICTITIOUS PAYEE, contract(law)

fictitious (iou)



fictitious adjective. E17.
[from Latin ficticius, from fict-: see FICTION noun, -ITIOUS1.]
Artificial, arbitrarily devised; counterfeit, imitation, sham. E17.
H. Crooke Distinguish betweene natural and fictitious precious Stones.
Imaginary, invented; unreal, false; (of a name or character) assumed. E17.
N. Rowe The fictitious Justice of the Gods. Pope Make use of Real Names and not of Fictitious Ones.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of literary fiction. L18.
E. Waugh How to invent names for fictitious characters without fear of prosecution.
Regarded as or called such by a legal or conventional fiction. M19.
H. J. S. Maine Adoption, as a method of obtaining a fictitious son.
fictitiously adverb M17.
fictitiousness noun M17.