English

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.
   • 1990, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Tractatus Brevus, Kluwer, page 38:

     Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work.

   • 1992, Donald C. Goellnicht, "Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men, Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling (editors), Reading the Literatures of Asian America, Temple University Press, ISBN 978-0-87722-936-0, page 205:

     The objects remain those of male fantasies, but from the start Maxine associates the ability to fantasize or fabulate with women and with Cantonese: […]

   • 2006, Jérémie Valentin, “Gille Deleuze’s Political Posture”, chapter 12 of Constantin V. Boundas (editor), Deleuze and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-2480-5, page 196:

     It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people.

Derived terms

• fabulation
• fabulator

Etymology 2

Noun

fabulate ‎(plural fabulates)

1. A folk story that is not entirely believable.
2. (specifically) A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.

See also

• memorate

Latin

Participle

fābulāte

1. vocative masculine singular of fābulātus