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fabricatory

fabricatory adjective: prone to fabrication; compulsively lying.

Adjective

fabricatory (comparative more fabricatory, superlative most fabricatory)

  1. (obsolete) 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.1919, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 304
    • He found a group of patients showing no hallucinations, but being depressed, grandiose, maniacal, or fabricatory.1919, Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Frank Pierce Foster, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics
  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.1892, Jessie A. Norquay Forbes, John Gentleman, Tramp, page 83
    • Your informants must have been pursuing the twisted fabricatory machinations of Baron Muenchhausen.”1948, Editor & Publisher - Volume 81, Issues 15-27, page 7
  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.1946, Queensland. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 1, page 10
    • 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.1973, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Motor carrier cases

Noun

fabricatory (plural fabricatories)

  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.1922, The Southern Lumberman - Volume 108, page 42
    • Foundries, fabricatories, factories, mills, and more.2011, Appleton Schneider, The Infamous Mustang Trial

Forms of fabricatory

Adjective
comparativemore fabricatory
superlativemost fabricatory
Noun
pluralfabricatories

Origin of fabricatory

From fabricate + -ory.

Questions about fabricatory

What does fabricatory mean?
Fabricatory means prone to fabrication; compulsively lying.
What part of speech is fabricatory?
Fabricatory can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near fabricatory in the dictionary

  1. fabrications
  2. fabricative
  3. fabricator
  4. fabricatories
  5. fabricators
  6. fabricatory
  7. fabricature
  8. fabricatures
  9. fabrick
  10. fabricke
  11. fabricked

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