Obs. In 7–8 fabrick(e. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To construct, fashion, frame, make (a material or immaterial object). Also, To fabric up = FABRICATE 1 and 1 c.
1623. Favine, Theat. Hon., X. ii. 422. That [Target] of Achilles, fabrickt by the Armourer Vulcane.
1625. Bp. Mountagu, App. Cæsar, II. xv. 215. Such as the Papists fabricke up unto themselves in their works of Supererogation.
1644. Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 74. He who hears what praying there is for light and clearer knowledge to be sent down among us, would think of other matters to be constituted beyond the discipline of Geneva, fram’d and fabric’t already to our hands.
1708. J. Philips, Cyder, I. 349.
| She found the polish’d Glass, whose small Convex | |
| Enlarges to ten Millions of Degrees | |
| The Mite, invisible else, of Nature’s Hand | |
| Least Animal; and shews, what Laws of Life | |
| The Cheese-Inhabitants observe, and how | |
| Fabrick their Mansions in the harden’d Milk | |
| Wonderful Artists! |
1738. Common Sense (1739), II. 5. You fabrick Generals as Statuaries do Figures of Wood and Clay, who never intend them for any other Use, than to stand at their Gates for Shew.
Hence † Fabricker, Fabricking vbl. sb.
1698. R. Fergusson, View Eccles., 107. The Original Authors and Fabrickers of the Word [Trimmer], designed to Discribe, Discypher, and Mark out those by it, who were neither Loyal Subjects, Upright Christians, Just, Veracious and Amicable Neighbours, nor Vigorous Patrons and Partizans of Publick Laws and Liberties. Ibid., 116. He hath let me into the Reason, Mystery and Secret of it, by a Key of his own Fabricking.
