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Definition of Fabled
1. Adjective. Celebrated in fable or legend. "Legendary exploits of Jesse James"
Definition of Fabled
1. Adjective. Known only in fables; fictitious. ¹
2. Adjective. Made known by fables; legendary, famed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fabled
1. fable [v] - See also: fable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fabled
Literary usage of Fabled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"... May for a moment please the ear, But cannot touch the heart : His simple
fancies flow, With cold fantastic images, In a night of fabled innocence, ..."
2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1903)
"... lead inward to the fabled homes of mountain deities. It was four o'clock the
next morning when we started. It was still dark. The stars were glorious. ..."
3. An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction by William Adolphus Wheeler (1865)
"In Milton's " Comus " and Fletcher's " Faithful Shepherdess," she is fabled to
have been transformed into a river-nymph, that her honor might be preserved ..."
4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"What marvel that her vast antiquity and changeless calm possess a power, like
that of fabled Lethe, to render us forgetful of ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"roads terminate, and only paths lead inward to the fabled homes of mountain deities.
It was four o'clock the next morning when we started. ..."
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