Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FAB'RIC-ATE, v.t. [L. fabrico, to frame, from faber, supra.]

1. To frame; to build; to construct; to form a whole by connecting its parts; as, to fabricate a bridge or a ship.
2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; as, to fabricate woolens.
3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story. Our books were not fabricated with an accommodation to prevailing usages. Paley.
4. To coin; as, to fabricate money. [Unusual.] Henry, Hist.