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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