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Fable
FABLE, n. [L., Gr. The radical sense is that which is spoken or told.]
1. A feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept.
Jothams fable of the trees is the oldest extant, and as beautiful as any made since.
2. Fiction in general; as, the story is all a fable.
3. An idle story; vicious or vulgar fictions.
But refuse profane and old wives fables. 1 Tim 4.
4. The plot, or connected series of events, in an epic or dramatic poem.
The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.
5. Falsehood; a softer term for a lie.
FABLE, v.i.
1. To feign; to write fiction.
Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.
2. To tell falsehoods; as, he fables not.
FABLE, v.t. To feign; to invent; to devise and speak of, as true or real.
The hell thou fablest.
fable appears in definitions for these words:
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Action Affable Alco Amazon Amphictyons Aonian Apologue Arkite Centaur Circean Coin Confabulate Cunningly Dash Discovery Earthborn Embroil Epic Epopee Epos Fable Fabled Fabler Fabulist Fabulize Fabulosity Fabulous Fabulously Farce Fib Ganza Gorgon Gray Hand Heed Hermetic Hippocentaur Invention Lie Minotaur Moral Moralize Mythic Mythologically Mythologist Mythology Neptunian Obsceneness Overplus Parable Personage Phaeton Pigmy Profane Renard Silent Sooterkin Story Study Stygian Suckle Sum Swarm Sylvan Symbol Table Talmudic Tantalize Tragicalness Trident Triton Troglodyte Vampire Venus Virtue Wood-nymph
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