I.a making, manufacture, formation, = ποίησις (post-Aug. and very rare).
I. Prop.: “in nostro orbe aliubi vena bonitatem hanc praestat, aliubi factura,” Plin. 34, 14, 41, § 145: “corporis totius,” Gell. 13, 29, 2; Vulg. Num. 8, 4.—
II. Transf., pass., a thing produced or created, a creature, work: “anima factura dei est,” Prud. Apoth. 792; so id. 856; Vulg. Eph. 2, 10.
