fabrefaction
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin fabrēfacĕre.
Noun[edit]
fabrefaction (countable and uncountable, plural fabrefactions)
- (obsolete, rare) the process or act of creating or developing, as of a work of art
- 1652, John Gaule, Πῦς-μαντία. The Mag-Astro-Mancer, or the Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner posed and puzzled:
- 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.
- 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:
- […] 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.
- 1899, Royal Society of the Arts. Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, vol. 47, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, pg. 612
- In all his fabrefactions there was the strong impress of his own individuality; the individuality not only of the born and laboriously trained artificer […]