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单词 fable-monger
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fable-monger
C2. objective, as fable-forger, fable-maker, fable-monger, fable-teller, fable-weaver, fable-writer; fable-framing, fable-making, fable-mongering, fable-weaving nouns and adjectives.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fabler, or fable teller, or full of fables, fabulosus.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xiii. 679 How mischieuous the presumption of those fable-forgers was.
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 173 Rhodope..(fellow bondwoman to Æsope the fable-maker).
a1661 B. Holyday in tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) Pref. The famous Italian fable-weaver, Ariosto.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 72 The Pythagorising Jewish humor of Fable-framing Philosophie.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 190 The Licentious Figments of Poets and Fable-Mongers.
1691 J. Dryden Let. Sir G. Etherege in Hist. Adolphus 76 All those Fable-makers.
1734 D. Waterland Scripture Vindicated Pref. xxii The attentive Readers may perceive how to distinguish the true and proper Allegorists from the Fable-mongers or Mythics.
1833 H. A. in Philol. Museum 2 442 Men who were not fable-makers or compilers of marvellous stories.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxiv. 168 His credulous, fable-mongering ears.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 10/3 A fable-writer and dramatic poet.
1911 S. S. Colvin Learning Process viii. 117 The tendency to fable-making causes him [sc. a child] to make statements..at variance with the truth.
1946 E. Blunden Shelley 24 In these fable-weavings something of the desire to be an author is seen.
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