fabulating

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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