than to lurk indoors playing with the OED? (For the record, I did go out and have a jittering-inducing sized cup of coffee at a local place, though it was for a union meeting so I guess that doesn’t count as leisure activity.)
Factory -
“repr. med.L. factoria, f. factor: see FACTOR n. The proximate source is uncertain: the word is found in several of the Romanic langs.: It. fattoria, Sp. factoría, Pg. feitoria (1551 in the original of our first quot.); Fr. has factorerie (Cotgr. 1611), f. as FACTOR n. + -erie -ERY; also, factorie app. adopted from some foreign lang.”
Some senses refer to “the type of factorium place or instrument of making (recorded in sense ‘oil-press’), f. facere to make.”
- An establishment for traders carrying on business in a foreign country; a merchant company’s trading station.
- A building or range of buildings with plant for the manufacture of goods; a manufactory, workshop; ‘works’.
Factor -
ad. Fr. facteur, ad. L. factor, agent-n. f. facere to do, make. Some of the obs. senses are immediately from L.
- A doer, agent.
- One who acts for another; an agent, deputy, or representative. Now rare.
- Comm. One who buys and sells for another person; a mercantile agent; a commission merchant. Also in comb., as corn-, cotton-, produce-, wool-, etc. factor.
Manufacture -
Prob. < Middle French, French manufacture action or process of making (1443, in 16th cent. also manifacture), factory (1537) < classical Latin manu, ablative singular of manus hand (see MANUS n.1) + Middle French facture FACTURE n., perh. after an unattested post-classical Latin form; cf. slightly later post-classical Latin manifactura (1458, in a papal document; 1617 in a British source in sense ‘manufactured article’) and Italian manifattura (1447), Old Occitan manufatura (1450); also Spanish manufactura (1633 as manifatura), Portuguese manufactura (1784 or earlier). The English word may perh. be an independent formation from the corresponding elements: cf. earlier MANUFACT a. and FACTURE n.
With sense 1b perh. cf. Dutch manufacturen (plural) manufactured articles, esp. drapery (1607)
- Production of goods; an article produced by hand, in a factory, etc.
- The action or process of making or producing articles, material, or a commodity (in modern use, usually on a large scale) by physical labour, machinery, etc. Also fig.
- A particular branch or form of productive industry. Often with prefixed noun, as linen, woollen, worsted manufacture.
n. Cf. Middle French, French manufacturer (c1576; 1538 as participial adjective), post-classical Latin manifacturare (a1567 in a document from Genoa), Italian manifatturare (Florio, 1598).
- To make (a product, goods, etc.) from, (out) of raw material; to produce (goods) by physical labour, machinery, etc., now esp. on a large scale. Also in extended use.
- To make up or bring (raw material, ingredients, etc.) into a form suitable for use; to work up as or convert into a specified product. Also in extended use.
- To invent (a fiction); to deliberately fabricate (a story, statement, etc.).
- To manage or contrive to make (a gesture, etc.); to perform (an act) or bring about (a situation, an occurrence, etc.) by artifice or contrivance.
Manus -
classical Latin manus hand, cognate with Oscan manim (accusative singular) and Umbrian mani (ablative singular), manf (accusative plural), and further cognate with MUND n. With sense 2 cf. the extended use of classical Latin manus in the sense ‘power of a husband or his paterfamilias over a wife’ (cf. MANUMIT v.).
- Chiefly literary. The hand. Obs. rare.
- Roman Law. A form of power or authority, principally involving control over property, held in some instances by a husband over his wife; a form of marriage contract giving a husband such authority.
Fabricate -
f. L. fabricat- ppl. stem of fabrica-re, f. fabrica FABRIC n.
- To form (semi-finished metal stock or other manufacturing material) into the shape required for a finished product; also with the product as obj.
Education -
ad. L. education-em, f. educare
- The process of nourishing or rearing a child or young person, an animal. Obs.
- The process of ‘bringing up’ (young persons); the manner in which a person has been ‘brought up’; with reference to social station, kind of manners and habits acquired, calling or employment prepared for, etc. Obs. exc. with notion of the following:
- The systematic instruction, schooling or training given to the young in preparation for the work of life; by extension, similar instruction or training obtained in adult age. Also, the whole course of scholastic instruction which a person has received. Often with limiting words denoting the nature or the predominant subject of the instruction or kind of life for which it prepares, as classical, legal, medical, technical, commercial, art education.
- The training of animals.
- Culture or development of powers, formation of character, as contrasted with the imparting of mere knowledge or skill. Often with limiting word, as intellectual, moral, physical.
Educate -
f. L. educat- ppl. stem of educare to rear, bring up (children, young animals), related to educere to lead forth (see EDUCE), which is sometimes used nearly in the same sense.
- To rear, bring up (children, animals) by supply of food and attention to physical wants. Obs.
- To bring up (young persons) from childhood, so as to form (their) habits, manners, intellectual and physical aptitudes.
- To instruct, provide schooling for (young persons).
- To train (any person) so as to develop the intellectual and moral powers generally.
- To train, discipline (a person, a class of persons, a particular mental or physical faculty or organ), so as to develop some special aptitude, taste, or disposition.
- To train (animals).
Educe -
ad. L. educere, f. e out + ducere to lead.
- To bring out, elicit, develop, from a condition of latent, rudimentary, or merely potential existence.
- To evoke, give rise to (actions, manifestations, etc.).