Definition of fabulate

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fab·u·late    (fby-lt) KEY  

intr.v.
fab·u·lat·ed , fab·u·lat·ing , fab·u·lates

To engage in the composition of fables or stories, especially those in which the element of fantasy comes into heavy play: "a land which . . . had given itself up to dreaming, to fabulating, to tale-telling" (Lawrence Durrell).

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ETYMOLOGY:
Latin fbulr , fbult-, to talk, from fbula, tale, talk ; see fable

OTHER FORMS:
fabu·lation (Noun), fabu·lator (Noun)

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