confictĭo, ōnis, f. [confingo],
an inventing, fabricating : criminis, Cic. Rosc. Am. 13, 35.— Absol. : confictionis argumentatio, Cael. Aur. Acut. 1, 11, 81.
cōnfictiō ōnis, f confingo, a fabricating : criminis. ...
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