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Examples of fictitious in a Sentence
He declared the whole legend was fictitious.
But he is sometimes guilty of inserting rhetorical speeches which are not only fictitious, but also misleading as an account of the speaker's sentiments.
The colors of dinosaurs illustrated in books are purely fictitious.
Pedigrees were invented, imaginary consulships and fictitious triumphs inserted, and family traditions and family honours were formally incorporated with the history of the state.
It should not be difficult to decide whether the reversals are real or fictitious.
It is certain to be met by fictitious devices which at the best will cause needless inconvenience to the contracting parties; restraints will be placed on the natural flow of capital, and industry will suffer.
She does not appear in Homer, although according to Xanthus (regarded by some as a fictitious personage), to whom Stesichorus was indebted for much in his Oresteia, she was identical with the Homeric Laodice, and was called Electra because she remained so long unmarried ('A-MKTpa).
Aspremont (12th century) describes a fictitious campaign against the Saracen King Agolant in Calabria, and is chiefly devoted to the enfances of Roland.
The two 13th-century romances, Gaidon, by Herbert Leduc de Dammartin, and Anseis de Carthage, contain a purely fictitious account of the end of the war in Spain, and of the establishment of a Frankish kingdom under the rule of Anseis.
In astronomy the "mean sun" is a fictitious sun which moves uniformly in the celestial equator and has its right ascension always equal to the sun's mean longitude.
From this passage arose a legend, which took shape only in the 17th century, that the compass was invented in the year 1302 by a person to whom was given the fictitious name of Flavio Gioja, of Amalfi.
The decision between the two races turned on the vote of the feudal proprietors, and in order to win this a society was formed among the German capitalists of Vienna (to which the name of Chabrus was popularly given) to acquire by real or fictitious purchase portions of those estates to which a vote was attached.
A great number of explanations are current, some of which claim the authority of the Prophet himself; as, indeed, fictitious utterances of Mahomet play throughout a conspicuous part in the exegesis of the Koran.
They suffered, not only from the regular taxes, which were seldom remitted even after bad seasons, but also from monopolies; and Procopius goes so far as to allege that the emperor made a practice of further recruiting his treasury by confiscating on slight or fictitious pretexts the property of persons who had displeased Theodora or himself.
That the war continued for nearly two years after this proclamation shows how fictitious the claim of annexation was.
In any case the age stated in the burial register, "about 45," was fictitious, whether for Mattioli (63) or Dauger (at least 53) and, as Lair points out, Saint-Mars is known to have given false names at the burial of other prisoners.
The more advanced school of critics holds that the names of the supposed authors are purely fictitious, as those of some of the authorities which they profess to quote certainly are.
But it is as a brilliant humourist and satirist that he is remembered, in connexion with his fictitious character "Sam Slick."
The tradition and the assertion are in all probability equally fictitious and proceed respectively from the foes and the friends of the Herodian dynasty.
It has already been pointed out that the problem as it presented itself to utilitarian philosophers could lead only to a false solution, depending as it did upon a wholly fictitious theory as to the nature of desire.
But, nevertheless, the new light thrown upon the unity of the self and the more careful and accurate scrutiny made by recent psychologists of the phenomena of decision have rendered it no longer possible either for determinists to deny the fact of choice (whatever be their theory as to its nature) or for libertarians to regard the self or the will as isolated from and unaffected by other mental constituents and antecedents, and hence, by an appeal to wholly fictitious entities, to prove the truth of freedom.
In this orbit a certain fictitious planet is supposed to move according to the law of elliptic motion.
Although the longitude of the fictitious planet at the fictitious time is then equal to that of the true planet at the true time, their radii vectores will not be strictly equal.
In 1533, he published his Invicta Veritas (with the fictitious pressmark of Luneberge, to avoid suspicion), which contained an answer to the numerous tracts supporting Henry's ecclesiastical claims. After an imprisonment of more than six years, Abel was sentenced to death for denying the royal supremacy in the church, and was executed at Smithfield on the Both of July 1540.
It would seem that Abu'l-Mahasin had read or heard the stories in the Nights, and was thus led to compare the historical with the fictitious character.
Formic ether gives a peach-like odour, and is used for flavouring fictitious rum.
Hume, therefore, for his part, rejected entirely the notion of cause as being fictitious and delusive, and professed to account for the habit of regarding experience as necessarily connected by reference to arbitrarily formed custom of thinking.
Whilst most are entirely fictitious, bred form urban myths of payouts for nothing - always a " friend of a friend " .
Brian Mitchell, trading standards officer, described the story as " totally fictitious.
A popular error found Humphrey a fictitious tomb in St Paul's Cathedral.
Make up a fictitious word to use as a password.
Brown and Sally Pressman as the titular wives (and one husband) of army officers and enlisted posted at the fictitious Fort Marshall.
Even in the 12th century there were some who detected, and derided, the fictitious character of Geoffrey's "History."
The "mean moon" is a fictitious moon which moves around the earth with a uniform velocity and in the same time as the real moon.
Comparing the longitudes of the actual and the fictitious planet the former will sometimes be ahead of the latter and sometimes behind it.
But in every case, if at a certain time t, the actual planet has a certain longitude, it is certain that at a very short interval dt before or after t, the fictitious planet will have this same longitude.
What Hansen's method does is to determine a correction dt such that, being applied to the actual time t, the longitude of the fictitious planet computed for the time t+dt, will give the longitude of the true planet at the time t.
This early experiment in colonization at Saybrook and the sale by Fenwick are important on account of their relation to a fictitious land title.
I do not know of any other garden, real or fictitious, claiming to have a " yew alley " .
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president.
Moore dismisses the alleged email as being, " Completely fictitious ", and, " Complete and utter lies " .
Where possible each module or pairing of modules represents a different industry or location, mostly fictitious.
The persons did not seem fictitious, but quite in the same condition as they were presented.
Amputees have star roles in war games, like densely plotted, big-budget movie Army fights insurgents in fictitious town.
The fictitious suburb of Philadelphia was close enough to New York and Washington D.C. that characters often made excursions to those cities.
Check with your city administration office for information on licenses, permits and fictitious name filings you need to run your particular type of business.
The Heralds of Valdemar serve in a feudal-level fictitious kingdom created by fantasy novelist Mercedes Lackey.
If you dash through the process of thinking through your fictitious setting, it will show in the final product.
Battlestar Galactica schematics for the fictitious colonial military ship include the layout and specifications that make the futuristic setting real for BSG fans.
Star Trek starships inspire the exploratory nature of the human experience within the fictitious universe of the Star Trek franchise.