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Definition of Fabulate
1. Verb. (intransitive) To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables. ¹
2. Noun. A folk story that is not entirely believable. ¹
3. Noun. (context: specifically) A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fabulate
1. to compose fables [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fabulate
Literary usage of Fabulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America by Fredrika Bremer (1853)
"... they fabulate, and there is no need of fabulation to make the condition of
the slave horrible. The reality is worse than any fiction. ..."
2. Essays by Morell Mackenzie (1893)
"... can it be said that the general physician is altogether exempt from the
temptation to " fabulate " all sorts of morbid conditions, dealing as he usually ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Later, inclination to fabulate, loss of judgment, disorienta- tion, narrowing of
the external interests, episodes of confusion and hallucinatory delirium, ..."
4. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1908)
"Nor did the daily commerce of man with man come off much better. He was not one
who would " feebly fabulate and paddle in the social slush. ..."
5. Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau (1908)
"... they congregate in sitting-rooms, and feebly fabulate and paddle in the social
slush, and go unashamed to their beds and take on a new layer of sloth. ..."
6. Thoreau's Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Raymond Macdonald Alden (1910)
"They do a little business commonly each day, in order to pay their board, and
then they congregate in sitting-rooms and feebly fabulate and paddle in the ..."
7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"I suppose you don't cc fabulate with girls in the public squares at midnight—girls
like th I mean—unless there is an engagement between you. ..."
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