fābrĭcātor (noun M) : id.
* An artificer, framer, forger, contriver, fabricator (rare but class.).
* Lit.: ille fabricator tanti operis (mundi),Cic. Univ. 2; so, mundi, Quint, 2, 16, 12; Ov. M. 1, 57: minutorum opusculorum,Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 120: ipse doli (i. e. equi lignei) fabricator Epeos,Verg. A. 2, 264: deorum, i. e. of statues of the gods, Firm. Math. 3, 6, 9.
* Trop.: dolor ac morbus leti fabricator uterque est,causer, producer,Lucr. 3, 472.

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