fabricatory

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Prone to fabrication

   Prone to fabrication; compulsively lying.

   • 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.
   • He found a group of patients showing no hallucinations, but being depressed, grandiose, maniacal, or fabricatory.
2. 2

   Pertaining to fabrication, storytelling and lying.

   • Your informants must have been pursuing the twisted fabricatory machinations of Baron Muenchhausen.”
   • 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 !
3. 3

   Pertaining to fabrication, construction, and manufacturing.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      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.
      • Foundries, fabricatories, factories, mills, and more.
      • 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.

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