fabulate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work."
- "The objects remain those of male fantasies, but from the start Maxine associates the ability to fantasize or fabulate with women and with Cantonese: […]"
- "It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people."
- "Anyone who considers it a pleasure to compose short stories or to fabulate a tale, must remain silent and say nothing of her beauty."
- "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."
- "It is a rule, though, that each fabulate, as well as every other narrative that requires credence or pretense or at least the possibility of belief as its ingredient, is based on either a truly existing or an assumed memorate[…] or something similar."
Etymology
From Latin fābulātus, perfect active participle of fābulor (“to tell stories, chat”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fābula (“fable”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fābulātus