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▪ I. † ˈfabricate, pa. pple. Sc. Obs.
[ad. L. fabricāt-us pa. pple. of fabricāre.]
(See quot.)
1755Johnson s.v., When they [Scottish lawyers] suspect a paper to be forged, they say it is fabricate.
▪ II. fabricate, v.|ˈfæbrɪkeɪt|
[f. L. fabricāt- ppl. stem of fabricā-re, f. fabrica fabric n.]
1. a. trans. To make anything that requires skill; to construct, manufacture. Now rare.
1598Yong Diana 171 Wals fabricated by artificiall hand. 1667J. Flavel Saint Indeed (1754) 59 A guilty conscience..is the devil's anvil on which he fabricates all those swords and spears. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 235 God Fabricated the Earth. 1774Pennant Tour Scot. in 1772. 10 Hinges..and other branches of hardware are fabricated here. 1821Craig Lect. Drawing ii. 134 Colourless Glass..has never yet been fabricated. 1857Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. I. 198 He is reported to have fabricated clocks. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 247 And silk was first fabricated in that city [Tours].
†b. to fabricate about with: to surround as with a framework of. Obs.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 64 This citie, the metropolis of Persia, is fabricated about with spacious gardens.
c. with immaterial object. Also absol.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. iii. 328 Our later Mathematitians haue..fabricated new systemes of the World, out of their own Dedalian heads. 1783C. J. Fox Sp. E. India Bill 26 Nov., He was not vain enough to think, that any bill he could fabricate would be perfect. 1864Bowen Logic ii. 43 The secret workshop in which nature fabricates cognitions and thoughts. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ii. 19 The tens of thousands [of words] which might be fabricated.
†d. Used for: To produce factitiously. Obs.
1776T. Percival Philos., Med. & Exp. Essays III. 274 The miliary eruption is frequently fabricated by..heating remedies and forced sweats.
e. To form (semi-finished metal stock or other manufacturing material) into the shape required for a finished product; also with the product as obj.
1926R. J. Anderson Metall. Aluminium xix. 853 Aluminium, when annealed, is readily fabricated by these operations [sc. drawing, pressing, and spinning], but the light alloys are not so readily worked. 1935G. E. Doan Princ. Physical Metall. 1 A hundred men may be engaged in fabricating the metals which have been extracted, forming them into countless shapes, such as rails, I-beams, boiler plate, [etc.]. 1951G. Sachs Sheet-Metal Fabricating i. 9 Generally, large parts in very thin metal are difficult to fabricate accurately. 1963Simonds & Church Conc. Guide Plastics (ed. 2) vii. 187 Both thermo⁓setting and thermoplastic materials can be fabricated into a variety of shapes and forms. 1971Helicopter July 147/1 The rotor blades are fabricated from aluminium alloy sheet bonded together by means of a film adhesive.
2. In bad sense: To ‘make up’; to frame or invent (a legend, lie, etc.); to forge (a document).
1779J. Moore View Soc. Fr. (1789) I. xl. 349 The whole story was fabricated. 1790Paley Horæ Paul. i. 5 An impostor who was fabricating a letter in the name of St. Paul. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages ix. (1819) 346 Every saint [had] his legend, fabricated in order to enrich the churches under his protection. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 391 Numerous lies, fabricated by the priests..were already in circulation. 1873Act 36–7 Vict. c. 71 §33 If any person..wilfully fabricate in whole or in part,..any voting paper.
Hence ˈfabricated ppl. a., ˈfabricating vbl. n.
1630Wadsworth Pilgr. vii. 67 His Art in contriuing and fabricating of Ships, and Gallyes. 1796A. M. Johnson Monmouth ii. 65 While the secret schemes of diabolical revenge were fabricating. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 542 Among the fabricated articles, are great numbers of stoves. 1796Burke Let. Noble Ld. Wks. VIII. 67 New fabricated republicks. 1805T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 43 This fabricated flight from Richmond was not among the charges. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxv. (1856) 205 There is not a man..who would have given..the countenance of his silence to a fabricated claim.
▸ fabricated or induced illness n. Med. and Psychiatry (in full fabricated or induced illness in children by carers) = Munchausen n.
[1983Pediatrics 71 715 The terms ‘Munchausen syndrome by proxy’ or ‘Polle syndrome’ have been used to describe children who are victims of parentally induced or fabricated illness.] 1994Calgary Herald (Nexis) 7 May b5/2 Child Welfare officials took the child, alleging the mother suffered from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy—a rare disorder in which parents will take their children from doctor to doctor complaining of *fabricated or induced illness. 2001Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 Aug. 296/1 The Department of Health and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health..both now refer to the problem as ‘fabricated or induced illness in children by carers’. 2002Observer 21 Apr. 18/1 Relabelled last month by the Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health as fabricated or induced illness by carers (FII), the syndrome recasts traditional roles. |