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Fabricate   /fˈæbrəkˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Fabricate  v. t.  (past & past part. fabricated; pres. part. fabricating)  
1.
To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.
2.
To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.
3.
To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story. "Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages."






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"Fabricate" Quotes from Famous Books



... many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail! Queen Mab, ...
— The World's Best Poetry -- Volume 10 • Various

... Archbishop of CANTERBURY sought from the Government a clear statement of policy regarding the repatriation of enemy aliens, and incidentally paid a high tribute to the British Press, which, we were glad to hear, contains "nobody who desires to fabricate baseless statements." ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Apr 2, 1919 • Various

... friends, and are the leaders, of the people for whose welfare they are intended—to convince the British minister and the British people of the absolute impossibility of satisfying men, whose own selfish interest lies at the bottom of all their actions, and who fabricate grievances that, under the pretence of seeking their redress, they may be ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various

... the collection of tax-exempt "municipal planning" organizations housed in a Rockefeller-financed center at 1313 East 60th Street, Chicago, which has become national headquarters for the production and placement of experts—who fabricate "progressive" legislation for government at all levels; who rewrite our "archaic" state constitutions; and who take over as city managers, or county managers, or metropolitan managers, or regional managers ...
— The Invisible Government • Dan Smoot

... silver, of lustrous stones, and of the power of herbs, and who introduced the arts of astrology and magic upon the earth. Again, the Arabic Kitab-al-Fihrist, written by al-Nadim towards the end of the 10th century, says that the "people who practise alchemy, that is, who fabricate gold and silver from strange metals, state that the first to speak of the science of the work was Hermes the Wise, who was originally of Babylon, but who established himself in Egypt after the dispersion of the peoples from Babel.'' Another legend, also to be found in Arabic sources, ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


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