Definition of Facture

1. n. The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.

Definition of Facture

1. the act of making something [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Facture

facts on the ground
factsheet
factsheets
factual
factualism
factualisms
factualist
factualists
factualities
factuality
factually
factualness
factualnesses
factum
factums
facture (current term)
factures
facty
facula
faculae
facular
facultative
facultative aerobe
facultative anaerobe
facultative biped
facultative bipeds
facultative heterochromatin
facultative hyperopia
facultative parasite
facultative ponds

Literary usage of Facture

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"facture, distillation, or sale of spirituous intoxicating liquors and drugs, among which opium has to be included. Taxes upon the sale of intoxicants were ..."

2. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 by John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young (1866)
"... in New Hampshire, commenced the first manu- works- facture of Salt in the Northern Colonies.1 This business was first begun at Cape Charles, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"M, do. do. do. facture in 1817 from coal-tax benzene. The usual arrangement now adopted for its manufacture (see Fig. 4) is as follows : '— The nitrating ..."

4. The Textile Industries of the United States: Including Sketches and Notices by William R. Bagnall (1893)
"... with exertion and a very great expense, erected a large building provided expensive apparatus and machinery therein, for the facture of cotton yarn in ..."

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