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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
FIC'TION, n. [L. fictio, from fingo, to feign.]
1913 Definition
The act of
feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of
the mind.
Bp. Stillingfleet. That which is feigned, invented, or
imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or
written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; --
opposed to fact, or reality.
The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. Macaulay. Fictitious literature; comprehensively,
all works of imagination; specifically, novels and
romances.
The office of fiction as a vehicle of instruction and moral elevation has been recognized by most if not all great educators. Dict. of Education. An assumption of a possible
thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
Wharton. Any like assumption made for convenience,
as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving
at points really at issue.
Syn. -- Fabrication; invention; fable; falsehood. -- Fiction, Fabrication. Fiction is opposed to what is real; fabrication to what is true. Fiction is designed commonly to amuse, and sometimes to instruct; a fabrication is always intended to mislead and deceive. In the novels of Sir Walter Scott we have fiction of the highest order. The poems of Ossian, so called, were chiefly fabrications by Macpherson. | ||||||||
