a. Obs. rare. [f. prec.: see -OUS.] Of the nature of ‘fucation,’ fair-seeming, specious, deceitful.
1654. Vilvain, Theorem. Theol., ii. 78. To offer a courtesy under impossible condition, is frivolous or fucatious.
1660. Waterhouse, Arms & Arm., 37–8. Concerning the rise of Arms, I would speak modestly as becomes, and as my Great Masters have presidented me, because as in Antiquity and the story of it, decocted thorow so many vicissitudes, and varnished over with fucatious semblances of truth instead of very truth; there is much doubt begot in sober mindes, to the solution of which there ought to be stanch reason and authority produced.
