Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Invented; feigned; imaginary; fictitious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Fictitious or imaginary; unreal.

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  • adjective rare fictitious, imaginary.

Etymologies

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From Latin commenticius.

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Examples

  • The envy and ill-nature displayed in this speech occasioned the scholar to remark, that it filled him with dolour to perceive, where consanguinity ought to produce colligation, there was a disunion of mind, occasioned by the malevolence and commentitious grievances of his elder sister, who had no just cause of complaint to allege against Miss

    Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments 1821

  • Let [care be taken that] it be publicly preached to the people that the Mass as men's twaddle [commentitious affair or human figment] can be omitted without sin, and that no one will be condemned who does not observe it, but that he can be saved in

    The Smalcald Articles Martin Luther 1514

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  • Fictitious or imaginary; unreal

    June 8, 2008