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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