Fig"ment (?), n. [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign.]
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.
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