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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

figmentum

, fr.

fingere

to form, shape, invent, feign. See

An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.

Social

figments

, feints, and formalism.

Mrs. Browning.

It carried rather an appearance of

figment

and invention . . . than of truth and reality.

Woodward.

Noun.

[L. figmentum, from fingo, to feign.]

An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. These assertions are the figments of idle brains.