Noah Webster
Fabricate
FABRICATE, verb transitive [Latin , to frame, supra.]
1. To frame; to build; to construct; to form a whole by connecting its parts; as, to fabricate a bridge or 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.
4. To coin; as, to fabricate money. [Unusual.]