fabulate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A folk story that is not entirely believable. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true. countable,specifically,uncountable
    — To jocular fabulates (Sherzfabulate) I place inter alia some of the “Tales of the Stupid Ogre” in Aarne’s Type Register.
动词 v.
  1. To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables. intransitive
    — Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work.
  2. To relate as or in the manner of a fable. archaic,transitive
    — Anyone who considers it a pleasure to compose short stories or to fabulate a tale, must remain silent and say nothing of her beauty.
  3. To tell fables, to narrate with fables. intransitive,obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

fabulates present,singular,third-person fabulating participle,present fabulated participle,past fabulated past fabulates plural

词汇关系

衍生词
fabulation fabulator
相关词
memorate

词源

词源 1
From Latin fābulātus, perfect active participle of fābulor (“to tell stories, chat”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fābula (“fable”).
词源 2
Coined around 1934 by folklorist Carl von Sydow to contrast with memorate, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
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