单词 | fabling |
释义 | fablingn. a. The action of fable v.; the telling of fictitious stories, fabulous narration, romancing, †lying; an instance of the same. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > telling of falsehoods, lying leasingc950 fablinga1300 lyinga1300 menteryc1450 blanching1581 forgery1582 whetstone-leasing1598 Creticism1614 mentition1656 falsehood1662 storytelling1681 mendaciloquencec1710 fibbing1749 economy of truth1796 fibbery1857 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > writing or creation of fiction fablinga1300 fictioneering1923 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun] > of an exaggerated kind > telling of romancing1440 fablingc1525 a1300 E.E. Psalter cxviii [cxix.]. 85 Wicked fablinges talde to me. c1525 J. Rastell New Commodye Propertes of Women sig. Biii Wyth thy fablyng & thy resonyng I wys I am begylyd. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 24 In the same veine..of fabling they called this Iland Albion. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 292 The next to fabling fell and smooth conceits. View more context for this quotation 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. sig. c3v I have considered the Saracens..the first authors of romantic fabling among the Europeans. 1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 205 Extinct be the fairies and fairy trumpery of legendary fabling. b. attributive. ΚΠ 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 13 They wolde thinke you made it but a triflyng and fabling matter. 1567 A. Golding in tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. biij The Poet..in fablyng wyse dooth make It happen in Deucalions tyme. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021). fablingadj. 1. That fables, in senses of the verb; that invents or relates fables; addicted to fable, romancing; in bad sense, mendacious. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [adjective] leasea900 liec975 false?c1225 unsoothfasta1300 untruefulc1380 trothlessa1393 fickle-tongue1393 truthlessa1522 lying1535 fabling1548 forging1593 mendacious1616 soothless1803 storytelling1839 unveracious1845 fabricatory1855 untruthful1858 falsidical1866 leasing1873 inveracious1885 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adjective] > involved in invention fabling1548 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [adjective] > indulging in fables fabling1548 fabulous1589 romancing1673 fabulose1677 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adjective] > writing or creating fiction fabling1548 fictive1865 fictioneering1923 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxvij Crafty imaginers of you fablyng French menne. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 13 The fonde dreames of doting Monkes and fabling Frears. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. x. 52 As for Noah, the fabling heathen..deified him. 1751 A. Pope Windsor-Forest in Wks. I. 102 The fabling Poet's lays. 1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Ludovico Sforza i. 4 She stood Like one of those bright shapes of fabling Greece. 1861 Sat. Rev. 21 Dec. 643 Fabling hatred was busy with the name of the fallen usurper. 2. Occasionally said of utterances, etc. ΚΠ 1620 T. Peyton Paradise in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 178 The fabling prayses of Elizium fields. 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 420/2 Confus'd mythology, and fabling song. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xx. 208 False records, fabling creeds, and juggling priests. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.a1300adj.1548 |
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