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Definition of Figments
1. figment [n] - See also: figment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Figments
Literary usage of Figments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1851)
"Ingenious figments by which these pretensions are maintained.— Auguries or Omens
by Birds. " It is not in consequence of the unskilfulness of physicians ..."
2. Editorial Comments on the Life and Work of Mary Baker Eddy by Christian Science Publishing Society (1911)
"Mrs. Eddy boldly seized on a single proposition—God is all good, therefore there
can be no evil, hence the things called evil are figments and imaginings of ..."
3. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1868)
"The progenitors of species are impossible figments of the imagination, which
never can have existed. 6. In every aspect, then, the origin of species, ..."
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