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(obsolete, psychology) Prone to fabrication; compulsively lying..
It has already been stated that the simple grandiose and fabricatory patients (using the terms to denote symptoms above described) are not prone to hallucinations, though the maniacal are.
He found a group of patients showing no hallucinations, but being depressed, grandiose, maniacal, or fabricatory.
As a little child she had been awed into a reverence for people who kept their word, although in those days she was not without contempt for luckless ones who could not escape Mother Meg's strap by reason of a certain lack in their fabricatory regions.
Your informants must have been pursuing the twisted fabricatory machinations of Baron Muenchhausen.”
Those officers whom we have mentioned meeting may perhaps be puzzled over our identity and it would be as well to say that we are nebulous and intangible creatures, with a tendency towards fabricatory embellishment !
I pointed out the fabricatory nature of Asokamitran's campaign to the editors and followed it up with a reply to his rejoinder listing some of the distortions, one by one, and bringing out what my stand was and how they appeared in Asokamitran's presentation.
It should be further noted that in the work of the Committee the term "secondary industries" has been taken to include the so-called processing industries, e.g. tanning and fruit-canning, and fabricatory industries, e.g. textile and paper mills.
Even so, we do not believe that, again in light of the pertinent decisional background, the fabricatory procedures through which fresh meats may have passed are sufficient to constitute the involved commodities as “processed commodities” within the meaning of the Bilyeu case.
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Fabricatory means (obsolete, psychology) Prone to fabrication; compulsively lying..
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It has already been stated that the simple grandiose and fabricatory patients (using the terms to denote symptoms above described) are not prone to hallucinations, though the maniacal are.
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