Meaning of fabulate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.
   intransitive
2. To relate as or in the manner of a fable.
   archaic, transitive
3. To tell fables, to narrate with fables.
   intransitive, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

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