OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 21735

factitious

/fækˈtɪʃəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
facticio
Created by humans; artificial.
Manners are partly factitious, but, mainly, there must be capacity for culture in the blood. Else all culture is vain.
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its fi…