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fiction
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Fiction
(gcide) | Fiction \Fic"tion\, n. [F. fiction, L. fictio, fr. fingere,
fictum to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign.]
1. The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a
mere fiction of the mind. --Bp. Stillingfleet.
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2. 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.
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The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon.
--Sir W.
Raleigh.
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When it could no longer be denied that her flight
had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented
to account for it. --Macaulay.
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3. Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of
imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
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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.
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4. (Law) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact,
irrespective of the question of its truth. --Wharton.
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5. 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.
Usage: 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.
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fiction
(wn) | fiction
n 1: a literary work based on the imagination and not
necessarily on fact
2: a deliberately false or improbable account [syn:
fabrication, fiction, fable] |
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crime fiction
(encz) | crime fiction,detektivka n: žánr Pino |
fiction
(encz) | fiction,beletrie n: |
fictional
(encz) | fictional,fiktivní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
fictional animal
(encz) | fictional animal, n: |
fictional character
(encz) | fictional character, n: |
fictionalisation
(encz) | fictionalisation, n: |
fictionalise
(encz) | fictionalise, v: |
fictionalization
(encz) | fictionalization,beletrizace n: Zdeněk Brožfictionalization,zbeletrizování n: Zdeněk Brož |
fictionalize
(encz) | fictionalize,zbeletrizovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
fictionally
(encz) | fictionally, |
fictions
(encz) | fictions,fikce pl. Zdeněk Brožfictions,výmysly n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
mystery fiction
(encz) | mystery fiction,detektivka n: žánr Pino |
non-fiction
(encz) | non-fiction,literatura faktu Martin Dvořák |
non-fictional
(encz) | non-fictional,nefiktivní Martin Dvořák |
nonfiction
(encz) | nonfiction,fakta nonfiction,literatura faktu nonfiction,nebeletristický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
nonfictional
(encz) | nonfictional,faktický nonfictional,nebeletristický |
nonfictional prose
(encz) | nonfictional prose, n: |
science fiction
(encz) | Science Fiction,sci-fi [zkr.] Petr Prášek |
sf (science fiction)
(encz) | SF (Science Fiction),sci-fi [zkr.] Petr Prášek |
science fiction
(czen) | science fiction,sci-fi Zdeněk Brož |
Fictional
(gcide) | Fictional \Fic"tion*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious;
romantic."Fictional rather than historical." --Latham.
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Fictionist
(gcide) | Fictionist \Fic"tion*ist\, n.
A writer of fiction. [R.] --Lamb.
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science fiction
(gcide) | science fiction \sci"ence fic"tion\ (s[imac]"ens
f[i^]k"sh[u^]n), n. [science fiction.]
A genre of fiction in which scientific and technological
issues feature prominently, especially including scenarios in
which speculative but unproven scientific advances are
accepted as fact, and usually set at some time in the future,
or in some distant region of the universe.
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fiction
(wn) | fiction
n 1: a literary work based on the imagination and not
necessarily on fact
2: a deliberately false or improbable account [syn:
fabrication, fiction, fable] |
fictional
(wn) | fictional
adj 1: related to or involving literary fiction; "clever
fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train
robbery" [ant: nonfictional]
2: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse
for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"
[syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious] |
fictional animal
(wn) | fictional animal
n 1: animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's
stories) |
fictional character
(wn) | fictional character
n 1: an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play
or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
[syn: fictional character, fictitious character,
character] |
fictionalisation
(wn) | fictionalisation
n 1: a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written
as if it were fiction [syn: fictionalization,
fictionalisation]
2: writing in a fictional form [syn: fabrication,
fictionalization, fictionalisation] |
fictionalise
(wn) | fictionalise
v 1: make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of
his parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalize,
fictionalise, retell]
2: convert into the form or the style of a novel; "The author
novelized the historical event" [syn: novelize, novelise,
fictionalize, fictionalise] |
fictionalization
(wn) | fictionalization
n 1: a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written
as if it were fiction [syn: fictionalization,
fictionalisation]
2: writing in a fictional form [syn: fabrication,
fictionalization, fictionalisation] |
fictionalize
(wn) | fictionalize
v 1: make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of
his parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalize,
fictionalise, retell]
2: convert into the form or the style of a novel; "The author
novelized the historical event" [syn: novelize, novelise,
fictionalize, fictionalise] |
nonfiction
(wn) | nonfiction
n 1: prose writing that is not fictional [syn: nonfiction,
nonfictional prose] |
nonfictional
(wn) | nonfictional
adj 1: not fictional [ant: fictional] |
nonfictional prose
(wn) | nonfictional prose
n 1: prose writing that is not fictional [syn: nonfiction,
nonfictional prose] |
science fiction
(wn) | science fiction
n 1: literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science
on society |
science-fiction fandom
(jargon) | science-fiction fandom
n.
Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom;
most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to ‘cons’
(SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the
Society for Creative Anachronism. Some hacker jargon originated in SF
fandom; see defenestration, great-wall, cyberpunk, h, {ha ha only
serious}, IMHO, mundane, neep-neep, Real Soon Now. Additionally,
the jargon terms cowboy, cyberspace, de-rezz, go flatline, ice, {
phage}, virus, wetware, wirehead, and worm originated in SF
stories.
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FICTION OF LAW
(bouvier) | FICTION OF LAW. The assumption that a certain thing is true, and which gives
to a person or thing, a quality which is not natural to it, and establishes,
consequently, a certain disposition, which, without the fiction, would be
repugnant to reason and to truth. It is an order of things which does not
exist, but which the law prescribe; or authorizes it differs from
presumption, because it establishes as true, something which is false;
whereas presumption supplies the proof of something true. Dalloz, Dict. h.t.
See 1 Toull. 171, n. 203; 2 Toull. 217, n. 203; 11 Toull. 11, n. 10, note
2; Ferguson, Moral Philosophy, part 5, c. 10, s. 3 Burgess on Insolvency,
139, 140; Report of the Revisers of the Civil Code of Pennsylvania, March 1,
1832, p. 8.
2. The law never feigns what is impossible fictum est id quod factum
non est sed fieri potuit. Fiction is like art; it imitates nature, but never
disfigures it it aids truth, but it ought never to destroy it. It may well
suppose that what was possible, but which is not, exists; but it will never
feign that what was impossible, actually is. D'Aguesseau, Oeuvres, tome iv.
page 427, 47e Plaidoyer.
3. Fictions were invented by the Roman praetors, who, not possessing
the power to abrogate the law, were nevertheless willing to derogate from
it, under the pretence of doing equity. Fiction is the resource of weakness,
which, in order to obtain its object, assumes as a fact, what is known to be
contrary to truth: when the legislator desires to accomplish his object, he
need not feign, he commands. Fictions of law owe their origin to the
legislative usurpations of the bench. 4 Benth. Ev. 300.
4. It is said that every fiction must be framed according to the rules
of law, and that every legal fiction must have equity for its object. 10 Co.
42; 10 Price's R. 154; Cowp. 177. To prevent, their evil effects, they are
not allowed to be carried further than the reasons which introduced them
necessarily require. 1 Lill. Ab. 610; Hawk. 320; Best on Pres. Sec. 20.
5. The law abounds in fictions. That an estate is in abeyance; the
doctrine of remitter, by which a party who has been disseised of his
freehold, and afterwards acquires a defective title, is remitted to his
former good title; that one thing done today, is considered as done, at a
preceding time by the doctrine of relation; that, because one thing is
proved, another shall be presumed to be true, which is the case in all
presumptions; that the heir, executor, and administrator stand by
representation, in the place of the deceased are all fictions of law. "Our
various introduction of John Doe and Richard Roe," says Mr. Evans, (Poth. on
Ob. by Evans, vol. n. p. 43,) "our solemn process upon disseisin by Hugh
Hunt; our casually losing and finding a ship (which never was in Europe) in
the parish of St. Mary Le Bow, in the ward of Cheap; our trying the validity
of a will by an imaginary, wager of five pounds; our imagining and
compassing the king's death, by giving information which may defeat an
attack upon an enewy's settlement in the antipodes our charge of picking a
pocket, or forging a bill with force and arms; of neglecting to repair a
bridge, against the peace of our lord the king, his crown and dignity are
circumstances, which, looked at by themselves, would convey an impression of
no very favorable nature, with respect to the wisdom of our jurisprudence."
Vide 13 Vin. Ab. 209; Merl. Rep. h.t.; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; and Rey,
des Inst. de I'Angl. tome 2, p. 219, where he severely cesures these
fictions as absurd and useless.
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