figent

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪd͡ʒənt/

Adjective

figent (comparative more figent, superlative most figent)

(obsolete) fidgety; restless.
- c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher; Philip Massinger, “The Little French Lawyer”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, Act III, scene ii:
  such a little figent thing

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for figent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

engift, feting, fêting

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fiʒ/

Verb

figent

third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of figer

Latin

Verb

fīgent

third-person plural future active indicative of fīgō

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