单词 | fabulator |
释义 | fabulatorn. One who fabulates or relates fables; a story-teller. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller tale-tellera1387 talesman?a1505 historian1586 fabulator1604 tales-master1656 narrator1722 spinner1770 storier1816 Scheherazade1851 yarn-spinner1865 yarn-teller1891 yarn-slinger1897 1604 Aberdeen Reg. 24 Oct. (Spalding Club) II. 264 He that happinnis to be fabulatour, to bring his candill with him. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 298 Looking upon this Orpheus, not as a meer Fanciful Poet and Fabulator. 1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra iv. iii. §20 An historical Point, which no Fabulator, would have thought of. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. iii. 163 He desired the fabulator to tell him longer stories. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 115 The great then had fabulators or tale-tellers, as royalty has now..its readers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1604 |
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