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▪ I. manufactory, n.|mænjuːˈfæktərɪ|
Also 7 -factry, 7–8 -factury.
[ad. L. types *manūfactōria, -ōrium, f. manū facĕre: see manufactor and -ory1.]
†1. Something that is produced by labour. = manufacture 2. Obs.
a1618Raleigh Obs. Trade in Rem. (1661) 186 Other Manufactories vendible to the number of about one thousand. 1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2009/8 An Engine..for Beautifying of Cloth..Bays and all Woollen Manufactory. a1734North Exam. iii. vi. §56 (1740) 464 The Manufactury and Product of England. 1776Paine Com. Sense (1791) 55 We ought to view the building a fleet as an article of commerce, it being the natural manufactory of this country. 1786Lady Jerningham in J. Lett. (1896) I. 37 A very fine silver gown. It is a new Norwich manufactory.
†2. The production of manufactured goods. Obs.
a1618Raleigh Obs. Trade Pref. in Rem. (1661) 164 Thereby to bring Manufactory into the Kingdome, and to set on work all sorts of people. 1657R. Carpenter Astrol. 5 Mechanical, inferiour, and earthly Arts, pertaining to Manufactry, were invented by Cain and his Children. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy VI. xvii, To..work the machine to the improvement and better manufactory of the Arts and Sciences. 1812J. J. Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 79 All neatly and warmly clothed in woolen, apparently of their own manufactory. 1828Southey Ess. (1832) II. 332 The introduction of the linen manufactory is another instance.
fig.1846G. S. Faber Lett. Tractar. Secess. 215 The deliberate manufactory of falsehood seems to be a regular part of the Popish system.
3. A factory or workshop. Also with prefixed word, as cotton manufactory, milk manufactory.
1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 524 The queens manufactury in the Strand. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 591 Milk manufactories usurp the place Of..dairies. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. iii. 130/2 If the goods are fresh from the manufactory.
▪ II. † manuˈfactory, a. Obs.
[ad. L. type *manūfactōrius, f. manū facĕre: cf. prec.]
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, manufacture; engaged in manufacture.
1630Lord Banians 70 Servile and manufactory men that should serve the uses of the world in the handicrafts. 1704Swift Tale Tub §2 A Sort of Idol, who..did daily create Men by a Kind of Manufactory Operation. 1741New Hampsh. Prov. Papers (1871) p. lxxvi, The manufactory notes of a Combination of Persons in the other Government. |