fabrefaction
fabrefaction noun: the process or act of creating or developing, as of a work of art.
Noun
fabrefaction (countable and uncountable, plural fabrefactions)
- the process or act of creating or developing, as of a work of art
- O servile labour! in superstitious attendance. O toylsome labour! in prestigious fabrefaction. O lost labour and time! to be instituted and educated to such a practice or profession.1652, John Gaule, Πῦς-μαντία. The Mag-Astro-Mancer, or the Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner posed and puzzled
- […] according to the sense of the Stoics, than of the Platonists, whose inferior generated gods also (being first made) were supposed to have had a stroke in the fabrefaction of mankind.1667, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, page 347
Forms of fabrefaction
| plural | fabrefactions |
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Origin of fabrefaction
From Latin fabrēfacĕre.
Questions about fabrefaction
- What does fabrefaction mean?
- Fabrefaction means the process or act of creating or developing, as of a work of art.
- What part of speech is fabrefaction?
- Fabrefaction is a noun.
- What is the plural of fabrefaction?
- The plural of fabrefaction is fabrefactions.
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