fieri, n.
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Pronunciation:
/ˈfaɪəraɪ/
Etymology:
< Latin fierī, infinitive to be made, come into being. Compare in esse, in posse.
Used in medieval Latin phrase in fieri: in process of being made or coming into being. †Formerly sometimes treated as an English phrase, as in the fieri, in our very fieri.
1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie i. ii. 8
The Roman Church, then in the fieri of reforming.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 117
Many of these formed stones seem now to be in fieri.
1681 T. A. Religio Clerici 5
There is a certain magical influence of nature..that tempers us all diversly in our very fieri.
1681 H. More in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus ii. 258
The things then being in Fieri, when it [sc. the book] was Printed.
a1859 J. Austin Lect. Jurispr.
(1885)
II. 910
The contract is still in fieri as between obligor and obligee.