Definition of fabulate in English:
fabulate
verb ˈfabjʊleɪtˈfabyəˌlāt
[no object]Relate invented stories.
we fabulate; we make up a story to cover the facts we can't accept
Derivatives
nounfabjʊˈlɛɪʃ(ə)n
Reports on clinical findings are mixtures of facts, fabulations, and fictives so intermingled that one cannot tell where one begins and the other leaves off ’.
Example sentencesExamples
- The lyricism of the writing is, indeed, a source of ‘beauty and magic’ in the book, but balancing this tendency toward fabulation are the detailed depictions of daily life in the 1920s Delta.
- A sharper editorial overseer would help chisel Randerson's ambitious but oblique fabulations into shape; such an eye might also have caught several typos.
- Indeed, literature is full of fabulations wherein the world of a rat or dog is opened up magically to our vision.
- ‘Our panic and our pain are only eased by soothing fabulation; we call it history’.
noun
A recurrent feature of fabulators is their tendency to make every lie stand by itself, with little regard to its relationship to other true or false statements they have made or to firmly established external facts.
Example sentencesExamples
- How can this guy be such a blatant fabulator and still get even one fourth of the votes that he has?
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin fabulat- 'narrated as a fable', from the verb fabulari, from fabula (see fable).