| 1. | to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy. |
| 2. | to relate an event as a fable. |
fab·u·late  (fāb'yə-lāt') intr.v. fab·u·lat·ed, fab·u·lat·ing, fab·u·lates To engage in the composition of fables or stories, especially those in which the element of fantasy comes into heavy play: "a land which . . . had given itself up to dreaming, to fabulating, to tale-telling" (Lawrence Durrell). [Latin fābulārī, fābulāt-, to talk, from fābula, tale, talk; see fable.] fab'u·la'tion n., fab'u·la'tor n. |
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