Fabricatory
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A business that handles the fabrication of goods.
"It is our purpose to build and improve conditions for the manufacturer, the fabricatory and the public."
- 1 Prone to fabrication; compulsively lying. obsolete
"It has already been stated that the simple grandiose and fabricatory patients (using the terms to denote symptoms above described) are not prone to hallucinations, though the maniacal are."
- 2 Pertaining to fabrication, storytelling and lying.
"As a little child she had been awed into a reverence for people who kept their word, although in those days she was not without contempt for luckless ones who could not escape Mother Meg's strap by reason of a certain lack in their fabricatory regions."
- 3 Pertaining to fabrication, construction, and manufacturing.
"It should be further noted that in the work of the Committee the term "secondary industries" has been taken to include the so-called processing industries, e.g. tanning and fruit-canning, and fabricatory industries, e.g. textile and paper mills."
Example
More examples"It has already been stated that the simple grandiose and fabricatory patients (using the terms to denote symptoms above described) are not prone to hallucinations, though the maniacal are."
Etymology
From fabricate + -ory.
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