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/ˈfeɪbəl/
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ˈfeɪbəl
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A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
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But refuſe prophane and olde wiues fables, and exerciſe thy ſelfe rather vnto godlineſſe.
[…]we grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.
Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
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I say it would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune by secret methods to other men.
The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
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For the moral (as Bossu observes,) is the first business of the poet, as being the groundwork of his instruction. This being formed, he contrives such a design, or fable, as may be most suitable to the moral;
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To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
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He Fables not, I heare the enemie: / Out ſome light Horſemen, and peruſe their Wings.
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Vain now the Tales which fab’ling Poets tell, / That wav’ring Conqueſt ſtill deſires to rove; / In Marlbrô’s Camp the Goddeſs knows to dwell: / Long as the Hero’s Life remains her Love.
1852, Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, Act II, in Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 50, He fables, yet speaks truth.
To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.
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[…] erre not that ſo ſhall end / The ſtrife of Glorie: which we mean to win, / Or turn this Heav’n itſelf into the Hell / Thou fableſt […]
THE Poets Fable, That Apollo being enamoured of Caſſandra, was by her many ſhifts and cunning ſlights ſtill deluded in his Deſire […]
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Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it. A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake’s wings of excess.
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a deliberately false or improbable account
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
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a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
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