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† ˈfabulize, v. Obs.
[f. L. fābul-a fable + -ize.]
a. intr. To invent fables.
b. trans. To concoct, invent.
c. To relate as legend: with sentence as obj.
d. To dress up as a fable.
1612tr. Benvenuto's Passenger i. i. §19. 71 Endlesly among themselves they fabulize, nourish the mistery. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter i. 16 They did but fabulize an apish imitation of God's truth. 1738G. Smith Cur. Relat. II. 530 The Persians fabulize in their Alcoran, that [etc.] 1818G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ I. 251 It is utterly impossible that it [the Pentateuch] could thus grossly have fabulized.
Hence ˈfabulized ppl. a. ˈfabulizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1819G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) I. 241 Their fabulized history. 1816― Orig. Pagan Idol. I. 315 The very wildest style of oriental fabulizing. Ibid. II. 502 The fabulizing monks of the holy sepulchre. Ibid. III. 334 A fabulizing martyrology. |