fabricatory

English

Etymology

fabricate +‎ -ory

Adjective

fabricatory (comparative more fabricatory, superlative most fabricatory)

1. (obsolete, psychology) Prone to fabrication; compulsively lying.
   • 1919, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 304:

     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.

   • 1919, Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Frank Pierce Foster, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics:

     He found a group of patients showing no hallucinations, but being depressed, grandiose, maniacal, or fabricatory.

2. Pertaining to fabrication, storytelling and lying.
   • 1892, Jessie A. Norquay Forbes, John Gentleman, Tramp, page 83:

     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.

   • 1948, Editor & Publisher - Volume 81, Issues 15-27, page 7:

     Your informants must have been pursuing the twisted fabricatory machinations of Baron Muenchhausen.”

   • 1951, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps - Volumes 96-97, page 146:

     Those officers whom we have mentioned meeting may perhaps be puzzled over our identity and it would be as well to say that we are nebulous and intangible creatures, with a tendency towards fabricatory embellishment !

   • 1972, Thought - Volume 24, Issues 27-53, page 16:

     I pointed out the fabricatory nature of Asokamitran's campaign to the editors and followed it up with a reply to his rejoinder listing some of the distortions, one by one, and bringing out what my stand was and how they appeared in Asokamitran's presentation.

3. Pertaining to fabrication, construction, and manufacturing.
   • 1946, Queensland. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 1, page 10:

     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.

   • 1973, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Motor carrier cases:

     Even so, we do not believe that, again in light of the pertinent decisional background, the fabricatory procedures through which fresh meats may have passed are sufficient to constitute the involved commodities as “processed commodities” within the meaning of the Bilyeu case.

   • 1978, Harlan Garnett Wilson, Complexity as a Theoretical Problem - Volume 1, page 119:

     So, the ultimate test of the reliability of fabricatory science can only be the durability, stability, and efficiency of the structures that can be made by use of the theory.

Noun

fabricatory (plural fabricatories)

1. A business that handles the fabrication of goods.
   • 1922, The Southern Lumberman - Volume 108, page 42:

     It is our purpose to build and improve conditions for the manufacturer, the fabricatory and the public.

   • 2011, Appleton Schneider, The Infamous Mustang Trial:

     Foundries, fabricatories, factories, mills, and more.

   • 2013, Fritz Leiber, Tarzan and the Valley of Gold:

     We believe that he has fabricatories for expensive jewelry and a worldwide scatter of stores where he sells them at the highest prices—but there again the connections are as yet untraced.