FABRICATED

fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious

(adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination; “a fabricated excuse for his absence”; “a fancied wrong”; “a fictional character”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

fabricated

simple past tense and past participle of fabricate

Adjective

fabricated (not comparable)

Constructed or assembled.

False in the sense of made-up, constructed.

Source: Wiktionary


FABRICATE

Fab"ri*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fabricated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricating.] Etym: [L. fabricatus, p.p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.]

1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; 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 accomodation to prevailing usages. Paley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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