fictile

• “Some provision they might make by fictile vessels, coverings, tiles, or flat stones, upon and about the body (and in the same field, not far from these urns, many stones were found underground), as also by careful separation of extraneous matter composing and raking up the burnt bones with forks, observable in that notable lamp of”

  Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial

• “Then we meet him in the Vedas, the Being “by whom the fictile vase is formed; the clay out of which it is fabricated.””

  The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi

• “[Greek: korukion], a leathern sack or bag, which, when well stuffed, the Greeks used to suspend in the gymnasium, like the pendulum of a clock (as may be seem on a fictile vase), to buffet to and fro with blows of the fist.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850

• “Etruscans in an art in which afterwards they attained to such marvellous perfection, and the only relics now remaining of the fictile statuary for which Veil was so celebrated.”

  Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

• “You tread loathingly an indescribable earthen floor, and your eye, on entering the apartment, is arrested by a nameless production of the fictile art, certainly not of _Etruscan_ form, which is invariably placed on the _bolster_ of the truck-bed destined presently for your devoted head.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844

• “No. Much of what is going through the press on the subject of pottery will have its use as promoting the advancement and clearing up the history of fictile art, and will therefore be preserved, while a larger portion will interest only the few who delve into the records of human caprice and whim.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.

• “The exterior is richly and peculiarly ornamented, to show the progress of fictile art.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

• “Art, textile and fictile, degree of Pueblo advancement in 227”

  A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228

• “And he has slyly told us how, as he stepped aboard that “inland palace,” he bethought him of having written a thesis, three years before, proving that De Witt Clinton's chimera of joining the Hudson and Lake Erie was an idea both fictile and fibrous.”

  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great

• “The fictile vessels are all of a very primitive nature, being entirely moulded by hand, and showing no trace of the use of the potter's wheel.”

  Stonehenge Today and Yesterday

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