Definition of Factice

1. a rubber substitute [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Factice

fact checked
fact checking
fact checks
fact is
fact mood
fact of life
fact sheet
factbook
factbooks
factette
factettes
factfinder
factfinders
factfinding
factful
factice (current term)
factices
facticities
facticity
factified
factifies
factify
factifying
factiness
faction
factional
factionalise
factionalism
factionalisms
factionalization

Literary usage of Factice

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The organic diluents in common use are " factice," reclaimed rubber and rubber waste, ... factice is obtained by the interaction of glyceride-oils (linseed, ..."

2. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"... factice,(facere, /»'•dim, 'to make.') Artificial. That which is made by art, in opposition to what is natural, or found already existing in nature. ..."

3. The Annual American Catalog, 1900-1909 (1902)
"Knight. STRAWBERRY. Clemmens. The luscious strawberry. 25 c. JE Clemmens. Strawn, Winfield S. factice in the Sup. ct. of Neb., also Ohio, Kan., and Utah, ..."

4. Engineering Chemistry: A Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Thomas Bliss Stillman (1905)
"... asphalt rocks used, in industrial work, is in the construction of street pavements, and it is in this direction that some of the "factice" are employed. ..."

5. Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order by Edward Alsworth. Ross (1901)
"... factice or blackmail or intimidation, that it does not resent instinctively. On the other hand, the right to worship "according to the dictates of one's ..."

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