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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 510036, member: 33"]Interesting -- I had never heard of the word "factice." And dictionary definitions that I can find online don't include this definition, either. There is an entry in the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i> for "factice" but not the same meaning: </p><p><font size="4"><b> Any of several friable rubber-like substances made by vulcanizing unsaturated vegetable oils and used chiefly as compounding ingredients with rubber. Frequently with distinguishing word, as brown factice,white factice. Formerly also called <i>rubber substitute</i>.</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">But that is the only definition. The word is a borrowing from German, and based on the Latin <i>factīcius</i> (meaning artificial). </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">It's interesting that the OED never has caught up to this use of the word. They are usually up to date on almost everything.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 510036, member: 33"]Interesting -- I had never heard of the word "factice." And dictionary definitions that I can find online don't include this definition, either. There is an entry in the [I]Oxford English Dictionary[/I] for "factice" but not the same meaning: [SIZE=4][B] Any of several friable rubber-like substances made by vulcanizing unsaturated vegetable oils and used chiefly as compounding ingredients with rubber. Frequently with distinguishing word, as brown factice,white factice. Formerly also called [I]rubber substitute[/I].[/B] But that is the only definition. The word is a borrowing from German, and based on the Latin [I]factīcius[/I] (meaning artificial). It's interesting that the OED never has caught up to this use of the word. They are usually up to date on almost everything.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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