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fabulated

fabulated is the simple past and past participle of fabulate.

Meaning of fabulate

Verb

fabulate (third-person singular simple present fabulates, present participle fabulating, simple past and past participle fabulated)

  1. (intransitive) To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.
    • Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work.1990, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Tractatus Brevus, Kluwer, page 38
  2. (archaic, transitive) To relate as or in the manner of a fable.
    • Anyone who considers it a pleasure to compose short stories or to fabulate a tale, must remain silent and say nothing of her beauty.1990, Marianne Kalinke, Bridal-quest Romance in Medieval Iceland, page 74
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To tell fables, to narrate with fables.
    • 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.1630, Thomas Adams, “The Taming of the Tongve”, in The Workes of Tho: Adams, page 143

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Questions about fabulated

What is fabulated the simple past and past participle of?
Fabulated is the simple past and past participle of fabulate.

Words near fabulated in the dictionary

  1. fabtastic
  2. fabula
  3. fabulae
  4. fabular
  5. fabulate
  6. fabulated
  7. fabulates
  8. fabulating
  9. fabulation
  10. fabulations
  11. fabulator

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