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He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms
an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading.

Syn. -- Unnatural. -- Factitious, Unnatural.
Anything is unnatural when it departs in any way from its
simple or normal state; it is factitious when it is wrought
out or wrought up by labor and effort, as, a factitious
excitement. An unnatural demand for any article of merchandise
is one which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a factitious
demand is one created by active exertions for the purpose. An
unnatural alarm is one greater than the occasion requires; a
factitious alarm is one wrought up with care and effort.

Fac"ti*tive (?). a. [See Fact.]
1. Causing; causative.

2. (Gram.) Pertaining to that relation
which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely
received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as
when we say, He made the water wine.


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