(verb) : fābrĭcor, ātus, 1 (archaic
* Inf. fabricarier, Poëta ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159), v. dep. a., and (poet. and in post-Aug. prose) făbrĭ-co, āvi, ātum, 1, fabrica, to make out of wood, stone, metal, etc., to frame, forge, construct, build.
* Lit.
* Form fabricor: heu Mulciber, arma ignavo es invictā fabricatus manu, Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 208): ii, qui signa fabricantur,Cic. Off. 1, 41, 147: Capitolii fastigium,id. de Or. 3, 46, 180: gladium, id. Rab. Post, 3, 7: Jovi fulmen,id. Div. 2, 19, 43: naves,Tac. A. 14, 29: pontes et scalas fabricati,id. ib. 4, 51: (mundum) globosum est fabricatus,Cic. Univ. 6 Orell. N. cr. et saep.
* Transf., in gen., to prepare, form, fashion.
* Form fabricor: hoc affirmare potes, Luculle, esse aliquam vim cum prudentia et consilio scilicet, quae finxerit, vel, ut tuo verbo utar, quae fabricata sit hominem?Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 87; cf.: quanto quasi artificio natura fabricata esset primum animal omne, deinde hominem maxime,id. ib. 2, 10, 30: opus est fabricanda ad fulmina nubi,Lucr. 6, 365 Lachm. N. cr.; imitated: fabricantes fulmina nubes,Manil. 1, 853: ut ea ipsa dii immortales ad usum hominum fabricati paene videantur,Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. de Or. 3, 45, 178: prandium opipare,App. M. 7, p. 192, 31: quod nihil esset clarius ἐναργεία, ut Graeci: (perspicuitatem aut evidentiam nos, si placet, nominemus fabricemurque, si opus erit, verba), etc.,Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17: fabricare quidvis, quidvis comminiscere,Plaut. As. 1, 1, 89; cf.: compara, fabricare, finge quod lubet,id. Bacch. 4, 4, 42. —Absol.: age modo, fabricamini,Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 52.
* Form fabrico: philosophia animum format et fabricat,Sen. Ep. 16, 3: qui fabricaverat illum (Platonem),Manil. 1, 772: ne fabricate moras,Sil. 16, 671.—In pass.: dum illa verba fabricentur et memoriae insidant,Quint. 10, 7, 2.