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adj. - Of or relating to the craft of pottery adj. - Capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); Susceptible to being led or directed.

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  • The fictile art
  • fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda
  • The exterior is richly and peculiarly ornamented, to show the progress of fictile art.
  • Then we meet him in the Vedas, the Being “by whom the fictile vase is formed; the clay out of which it is fabricated.”
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