Fabrica, huius fabricæ, f. g. pen cor. A shoppe or workehouse.Fabrica ferrea. Plin. A smithes shoppe or forge. Fabrica.A wyle, deceite, or craftie deuice.Fabricam apparare.Plaut.To go about some wile, or craftie fetch.Fabricas admouere.Plaut.To attempt by craftie meanes.Fabricam fingere ad aliquem.Terent.To worke some wyle to beguile one. Fabricata.Cic.The arte of framing or making.Aeris & ferri fabrica. Ci. The working in brasse or yron.Confectionis materiæfabrica.Cicer.The arte or cunning to make things of timber or other matter.Præesse fabricæ alicuius.Cic. Fabrica.Cicer.The apt ioyning, framing, fashioning, or setting of things togither: the facture, or making.Admirabilis fabrica membrorum animantium. Cicero. The maruailous facture, or proportioning of the limmes.Explicetur incredibilis fabrica naturæ.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fābrĭca, ae, f. [1. faber], the workshop of an artisan who works in hard materials (syn.: taberna, officina). I. Prop., Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 45; 4, 6, 4: Vulcanus, qui Lemni fabricae traditur praefuisse, Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 55: armorum,
armory
, Veg. Mil. 2, 11 (for which: armorum officinae, Caes. B. C. 1, 34 fin.).—II.Transf., the art, trade, or profession of such an artisan, Vitr. 1, 1: pictura et fabrica ceteraeque artes habent quendam absoluti operis effectum,
architecture
, Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 35; cf. id. Div. 1, 51, 161; and: natura effectum esse mundum: nihil opus fuisse fabrica, id. ib. 1, 20, 53: omnis fabrica aeris et ferri, id. N. D. 2, 60, 150: aeraria, ferrea, materiaria, the art of working in brass, etc., Plin. 7, 56, 57, 197 sq.; cf.: aerariae artis, Just. 36, 4, 4; and: ejus fabricae, quam Graeci xalkeutikh\n vocant, Quint. 2, 21, 10.—In apposition with ars: abies Graeco fabricae artis genere spectabilis, Plin. 16, 42, 82, 225: servus arte fabrica peritus, Dig. 33, 7, 19 fin.: fanum solerti fabrica structum,
with artistic skill
, App. M. 6, p. 174, 25.—2. In gen., any skilful production, a fabric, building, etc.: admirabilis membrorum animantium, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121; cf. id. Off. 1, 35, 127; Pall. 1, 7, 4; 1, 9, 2 al.—Of man as the creature of God, Prud. Hymn. de Rad. Dom. 45. —b. In the comic writers, a crafty device, trick, stratagem: ei nos facetis fabricis et doctis dolis Glaucumam ob oculos obiciemus, Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 69; id. Cist. 2, 2, 5: nescio quam fabricam facit, id. Ep. 5, 2, 25; id. Bacch. 2, 3, 132: ad senem fingere, Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 34 al.