fabrefaction

English

Etymology

From Latin fabrēfacĕre.

Noun

fabrefaction (countable and uncountable, plural fabrefactions)

1. (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 […]

References

• "Fabrefaction". Oxford English Dictionary Online. Oxford University Press