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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
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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