Now rare. [a. F. fabricant, ad. L. fabricant-em, pr. pple. of fabricāre to FABRICATE.] One who fabricates, constructs, or fashions (anything); a maker or manufacturer.
1757. Herald (1758), I. 17 Nov., No. 10, 161. The fabricant is taxed in the materials he uses; the dealer in almost every thing he consumes.
1777. W. Dalrymple, Trav. Sp. & Port., cxlv. The minister, in the name of the king, first fabricant, who obliges the nation to purchase his commodities at his own price.
1799. G. Smith, Laboratory, II. 40. Every fabricant, or manufacturer at Lyons, in the flowered way, though he employs several hands in drawing of patterns, is a pattern-drawer himself; and, qualified as such by his judgment, he has the whole management under his own care and direction.
1834. Lytton, Pompeii, 162. Woe to us fabricants of bronze.
1884. G. Baden-Powell, A Last Word on Sugar Bounties, in The Fortnightly Review, xlii. 1 Nov., 641. Fabricants and refiners manage to create a large margin of ‘sugar.’
