Factitious
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- Created by humans, artificial.
- 1661, Robert Lovell, a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page
- [...] if from eroſion of the gumms, by ſuch things as reſtore them, ſtrengthen and bind them; if wanting, it may be helped by the factitious; their ſordes are remooved, by waſhing and cleaning them; and their blackneſſe, by dentifrices.
- 1661, Robert Lovell, a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page
- Counterfeit, fabricated.
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Etymology
factitius "artificial", from facere "to make, do".
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