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fabler|ˈfeɪblə(r)|
Also 4, 7 fabuler.
[f. fable v. + -er1: perh. after OF. fableor:—L. fābulātōr-em: see fabulator.]
One who fables. †a. A writer of fables or apologues (obs. rare—2: a literalism of translation). b. One who invents fictitious stories; chiefly in contemptuous use, a fiction-monger, fabulous historian. †c. One who speaks falsely, a liar (obs.).
a.1382Wyclif Baruch iii. 23 The fablers, or janglers. 1609Bible (Douay) ibid. iii. 23 Marchants of Merrhe, and of Theman, and fablers..searchers of prudence and understanding.
b.1614Raleigh Hist. World iv. ii. §21. 485 Our great traveller Mandivile..we account the greatest fabler of the world. 1644Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 130 The bold legends of lying fablers. 1728W. Smith Ann. Univ. College 153 Little Credit is to be given to these Fablers. 1821T. Campbell in New Monthly Mag. II. 228 The romantic fablers have generally aggravated the horrors of Circe. 1869J. D. Baldwin Preh. Nations ii. (1877) 24 That ready fabler, the Carian physician Ctesias. 1878T. Sinclair Mount 28 Rather was he [Swedenborg] a mechanical fabler of facts.
c.1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 157 Alle þis oþure Fabulers and Faytours, þat on Fote rennen. 1548Hall Chron. 88 b, The inhabitantes of Vernoyle gevyng to light credit to the Frenche fablers, received the duke. 1579E. K. Gloss. Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Apr. 120 Certain fine fablers, and loude lyers. 1607Tourneur Rev. Trag. ii. i. in Hazl. Dodsley X. 46 Y' are villains, fablers!..you lie. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 86 Some..censure the reporters of Miracles, as..Fabulers and Lyars. |