[a. L. fabricātor, f. fabricāre: see FABRICATE.]
1. One who or that which frames or fashions.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett., III. ix. The Almighty fabricator of the Universe doth nothing in vain.
1765. Ellis, in Phil. Trans., LV. 283. These worms appeared evidently, instead of being the fabricators of it, to have pierced their way into the soft substance.
1844. Disraeli, Coningsby, VII. iii. 262. Its elaborate timber framing and decorative woodwork, indicating perhaps the scarcity of brick and stone at the period of its structure as much as the grotesque genius of its fabricator.
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), II. 413. Domestic fabricators are too apt to fail in this particular, thinking that when they have mixed together a portion of sugar and fruit their labour is done.
1860. Farrar, Orig. Lang., i. 26, note. He [St. Gregory of Nyssa] alludes with ironic pity to those who speak of the Deity as the fabricator of Adam’s language, an opinion which he expressly calls a sottish and ridiculous vanity, quite worthy of the extravagant presumption of the Jews.
1863. Lyell, Antiq. Man, ix. (ed. 3), 166. They teach us that the fabricators of the antique tools, and the extinct mammalia coeval with them, were all post-glacial.
2. In bad sense: One who frames a false statement or forges a document; a forger.
1795. Mason, Ch. Mus., iii. 191. The Translator or Fabricator of the Works of Ossian (call him which you please, for the authenticity of them is of no consequence in my present argument) did wisely when he imitated that style.
1796. Bp. Watson, Apol. Bible, 231. Had they been fabricators of these genealogies, they would have been exposed at the time to instant detection.
1863. Miss Braddon, Eleanor’s Vict., III. vi. 82. She is as much George Vane’s daughter as I am the fabricator of a forged will.
