factitious

How To Use factitious In A Sentence

• Factitious what is anaemic? What symptom does anaemia have? How to treat anaemia?
• It is known also that the Japan camphor, termed factitious, will evaporate till it wholly disappears, and at all stages of its diminution retain its full proportion of strength; which does not seem the property of an adulterated or compounded body. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
• The nurse informed me he had been carted off to start a course of factitious fever therapy, the only treatment then available to allay the late ravages of the spirochaete.
• Dude" may have been made up "factitiously" (I'd like to know the dude who did it), but according to the O.E.D., it first came into vogue in New York about 1883, in connection with what the O.E.D. calls "the 'aesthetic craze' of the day. Dude, Where's My Dude ? Dudelicious Dissection, From Sontag to Spicoli
• In that context I feel like it isn't the established word factitious, but rather a new one meaning "half-factual, half-fictional". Languagehat.com: FACTITIOUS.
• Here, too, it resembles "The Producers," which was a last-gasp homage to the anything-for-a-laugh Borscht Belt schtickery on which the stand-up comedy of my childhood was based, with four-letter words sprinkled on top to give it a factitiously up-to-date air. The Re-'Producers'
• Gradually, if somewhat factitiously, his life is transformed through the experience, and in turn he enriches the lives of the collection of kindly, slightly bruised French types that constitute his circle. My Afternoons With Marguerite – review
• “Let me not,” said he, “waste my compassion upon nothing; compassion is with me no effusion of affectation; tell me, then, if thou deservest it, or if thy misfortunes are imaginary, and thy grief is factitious?” Cecilia
• Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must. Victor Hugo 
• 3 The form or ‘factitiousness’ of the anecdote provides the shape and the subjectivity of the account.