fingent

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fingēns (“shaping, fashioning”).

Adjective

fingent

(rare) Given to fashioning or molding.
- 1846 February, [Thomas Carlyle?], “Miscellanea Mystica—No. II”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 27, number 158, page 155:
  Goethe, say his censors, has, in the poem in question, placed the Christian religion, with its self-denials and its stern verities, in unfavourable contrast with […] classic heathenism […] with its throng of […] poetic phantoms that made every hill and valley and fountain, every forest-glade and green field and sea-beach, so full of lovely and awful mystery for the busy fingent fancy of the early Greek.
- 1853, The Trial of the Manchester Bards, and the Bowdon Coronation, page 19:
  He, as the Potter mouldeth on the wheel / The plastic clay, compelled the world to feel / The touch subduing of his fingent hand;
- 1923, W. L. George, One of the Guilty, page 16:
  But most of the time he thought about himself; he was the center of his earth; he could not yet escape into the fingent realm of general ideas.
- 1923, Ralph G. Kirk, Six Breeds, page 41:
  The fingent hands of man! He has caught this eager pose and moulded the dog’s intensest moment in life to his own desires […]

Latin

Verb

fingent

third-person plural future active indicative of fingō

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