Meaning of fingent | Babel Free

Definitions

Given to fashioning or molding.

rare

Examples

“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.”

“He, as the Potter mouldeth on the wheel / The plastic clay, compelled the world to feel / The touch subduing of his fingent hand;”

“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.”

“The fingent hands of man! He has caught this eager pose and moulded the dog’s intensest moment in life to his own desires […]”

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