fablern.
/ˈfeɪblə/, U.S. /ˈfeɪb(ə)lər/ One who fables.† a. A writer of fables or apologues (obsolete rare: a literalism of translation).† c. One who speaks falsely, a liar (obsolete).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > parable, allegory, or apologue > [noun] > writer or teller of
fabler1382
fabulist1593
apologer1624
parabolist1651
allegorizer1677
parabolizer1691
allegorist1754
allegorister1841
parable-writer1884
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Baruch iii. 23 The fablers, or janglers.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Baruch iii. 23 Marchants of Merrhe, and of Theman, and fablers..searchers of prudence and understanding.
b. One who invents fictitious stories; chiefly in contemptuous use, a fiction-monger, fabulous historian.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > writer or creator of fiction
fabular1565
story-dresser1592
fabler1614
figmentor1638
fiction-monger1835
fictioneer1923
fictioner1924
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. ii. §21. 207 Our great traueller Mandeuile..wee accompted the greatest fabler of the World.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 130 The bold legends of lying fablers.
1728 W. Smith Ann. Univ.-Coll. (new ed.) 153 Little Credit is to be given to these Fablers.
1821 T. Campbell in New Monthly Mag. 2 228 The romantic fablers have generally aggravated the horrors of Circe.
1869 J. D. Baldwin Pre-Hist. Nations (1877) ii. 24 That ready fabler, the Carian physician Ctesias.
1878 T. Sinclair Mount 28 Rather was he [Swedenborg] a mechanical fabler of facts.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a liar
liarc950
gabbera1325
fabler1362
wernard1362
leasing-mongerc1380
false sayera1382
leasing-maker1424
leasing-bearerc1440
contriver1477
drivelard1530
falsifier1532
lie-teller1552
Ananias1572
lick-dish1575
falsificator1609
fabulist1626
cracka1640
leaser1641
commentiter1645
prevaricator1650
cracker1652
bugiarda1670
rapper1758
pseudologist1804
Tom Pepper1818
wrinkler1819
lie-monger1830
untruther1889
tale-teller1894
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. ii. 157 Alle þis oþure Fabulers and Faytours, þat on Fote rennen.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. lxxxviiiv The inhabitantes of Vernoyle geuyng to light credit to the Frenche fablers, receiued the duke.
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 120 Gloss. Certain fine fablers, and loude lyers.
1607 Tourneur Rev. Trag. ii. i, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) X. 46 Y' are villains, fablers!..you lie.
1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 86 Some..censure the reporters of Miracles, as..Fabulers and Lyars.
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