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fabulate

verb

Etymology

From Latin fābulātus, perfect active participle of fābulor (“to tell stories, chat”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fābula (“fable”).

  1. derived from fābulātus

Definitions

  1. To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.

    • Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work.
    • The objects remain those of male fantasies, but from the start Maxine associates the ability to fantasize or fabulate with women and with Cantonese: […]
    • It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people.

  2. To relate as or in the manner of a fable.

    • Anyone who considers it a pleasure to compose short stories or to fabulate a tale, must remain silent and say nothing of her beauty.

  3. To tell fables, to narrate with fables.

    • The Fort is ſo barricadoed, that it is hard ſcaling it : the refractary Rebell ſo guarded with Euill and Poyſon, ſo warded with unruly and deadly ; as if it were with Gyants in an Inchanted Towre, as they fabulate ; so no man can tame it.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A folk story that is not entirely believable.

    2. A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.

      • To jocular fabulates (Sherzfabulate) I place inter alia some of the “Tales of the Stupid Ogre” in Aarne’s Type Register.

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Derived

fabulation, fabulator

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA