‖ fieri
(ˈfaɪəraɪ)
[L. fierī, inf. to be made, come into being. Cf. in esse, in posse.]
Used in med.L. phrase in fieri: in process of being made or coming into being. † Formerly sometimes treated as an Eng. phrase, as in the fieri, in our very fieri.
| 1640 Bp. Hall Episc. i. ii. 8 The Roman Church, then in the fieri of reforming. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 117 Many of these formed stones seem now to be in fieri. 1681 Relig. Clerici 5 There is a certain magical influence of nature..that tempers us all diversly in our very fieri. 1726 A. Horneck in Glanvill's Sadducismus 363 The things then being in fieri, when it [the book] was printed. 1832 Austin Jurispr. II. (1885) 910 The contract is still in fieri as between obligor and obligee. |