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▪ I. fabling, vbl. n.|ˈfeɪblɪŋ|
[f. fable v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. fable; the telling of fictitious stories, fabulous narration, romancing, † lying; an instance of the same.
a1300E.E. Psalter cxviii [cxix.]. 85 Wicked fablinges talde to me. 1530Calisto & Melib. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 78 With thy fabling and thy reasoning, i-wis I am beguiled. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 24 In the same veine..of fabling they called this Iland Albion. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 295 The next to fabling fell and smooth conceits. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1775) I. 22, I have considered the Saracens..the first authors of romantic fabling among the Europeans. 1821Lamb Elia, Old Benchers, Extinct be the fairies and fairy trumpery of legendary fabling.
b. attrib.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 45 They wolde thinke you made it but a triflyng and fabling matter. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. Ep. (1593) 11 The Poet..in fabling-wise dooth make It happen in Deucalions time.
▪ II. fabling, ppl. a.|ˈfeɪblɪŋ|
[f. fable v. + -ing2.]
That fables, in senses of the vb.; that invents or relates fables; addicted to fable, romancing; in bad sense, mendacious.
1548Hall Chron. (1809) 51 Crafty imaginers of you fablyng French menne. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 9 The fonde dreames of doting monkes and fabling friars. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. x. (1614) 52 As for Noah, the fabling heathen..deified him. 1704Pope Windsor For. 227 The fabling Poets' lays. 1822B. Cornwall Ludovico Sforza i. 4 She stood Like one of those bright shapes of fabling Greece. 1861Sat. Rev. 21 Dec. 643 Fabling hatred was busy with the name of the fallen usurper.
b. occas. said of utterances, etc.
1620T. Peyton Paradise in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 178 The fabling prayses of Elizium fields. 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 420 Confus'd mythology, and fabling song. 1814Southey Roderick xx. 208 False records, fabling creeds, and juggling priests. |