metallifacture

English

Etymology

From metal or Latin metallum (“metal”) +‎ -i- +‎ -facture.

Noun

metallifacture (countable and uncountable, plural metallifactures)

1. (uncountable, rare) The production and manufacture of metals.
   • 1887, Robert Dennis, “Depression and Its Causes” (chapter I), in Industrial Ireland: A Practical and Non-Political View of “Ireland for the Irish.”, London: John Murray, page 3:

     Given the necessary raw materials, capital, and skilled labour, nothing is easier than to turn trees into chairs, and ore into the finest products of metallifacture.

   • 1895 September 16, “Metallifacture Discovery: Claim that the Lost Art of Hardening Copper Is Found”, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, volume 21, number 20, St. Louis, page 1:

     [see title]

   • 1898, “726 Ingenieur u. Patentanwalt W. H. Uhland, Leipzig-Gohlis, Lindenstr. 13. 9000”, in List of Private Libraries / Liste de Bibliothèques Privées / Verzeichniss von Privat-Bibliotheken, volume III (Germany / Allemagne / Deutschland) (overall work in English, French, and German), Leipzig: G[eorg] Hedeler, page 93:

     Chiefly works in Germ., Engl. and French, esp. on Machinery, Electrotechnic, Architecture, Engineering, Metallifacture, Mechanics, Textile and Leather Industries, Papermaking, Ind. for the supply of Chemicals and Provisions, on Patents and Traffic; […]

2. (countable, rare) A manufactured article of metal.
   • 1841, Roswell Park, “Chreotechnics” (chapter XIV), in Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge […], Philadelphia: Hogan & Thompson, page 478:

     Under the head of Metallifactures, we include the manufacture of hardware, brassware and jewelry: reserving, however, that of watches, for the following section.

   • 1899 October, “Index to the Classification”, in Author and Title Catalogue of the Cathedral Library, of New York, New York: The Cathedral Library Association, page 8:

     3. Manufactures. […]
     b. Furniture.
      (1.) General and Unclassified.  H 6
      (2.) Metallifactures.      H 7

   • 1918 January 1, “Copper Metallurgy in 1917”, in Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, volume 18, number 1, New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., page 5:

     Eventually, of course, the West will absorb enormous quantities of locally-produced metallifactures; the war may easily hasten the establishment of some of these factories close to the point of production.

   • 1919 May 1, “Has Heat Treatment Been Demonstrated?”, in Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering, volume 20, number 9, New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., page 449:

     One is accustomed, when thinking of things connected with the manufacture of modern machine parts, to assume that heat treatment actually has been demonstrated. That is to say, that factory or shop executives universally recognize the fact that the physical properties of metallifactures may be altered and adjusted by a properly selected schedule of heating and cooling.

Further reading

• “metallifacture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “metallifacture”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.