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Webster 1913 Edition


Commentitious

Comˊmen-ti′tious

,
Adj.
[L.
commentitius
.]
Fictitious or imaginary; unreal;
as, a
commentitious
system of religion
.
[Obs.]
Warburton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Commentitious

COMMENTITIOUS

,
Adj.
Invented; feigned; imaginary.

Definition 2024


commentitious

commentitious

English

Adjective

commentitious (comparative more commentitious, superlative most commentitious)

  1. (rare) fictitious, imaginary.
    • 1845, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe (Section 22, The Pagan Oracles. Internet Archive):
      In philosophy no place should be given to commentitious fables.

References

  • Angus Stevenson (editor), Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 6th Edition (Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780199206872)
  • Josefa Heifetz Byrne, Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words. Granada Publishing, 1979. ISBN 0246111518.
  • commentitious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913