fabulistn.
/ˈfabjᵿlɪst/, U.S. /ˈfæbjələst/ 1. † b. A professional story-teller. Obsolete.
a. One who relates fables or legends; a composer of apologues.
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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
1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries 12 The fabulists feigned Acteon to be turned into a Hart.
a1677 Ld. North Light in Way to Paradise (1682) 93 Fortune, who..by the fabulist, is represented with a great Complaint in her mouth upon that occasion.
1757 S. Foote Author Prol. The Grecian Fabulist, in moral Lay, Has thus address'd the Writers of this Day.
1777 F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 227 The fabulists frequently make the wolves converse with the lambs.
1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ 45 The fabulists of Christendom..surround Christ's boyhood with a blaze of miracle.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller > professional
jangler1303
fabulist1607
hanashika1891
hakawati1910
1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. ii. sig. D4v Stale Tabarine, the Fabulist . View more context for this quotation
1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins 84 The Sallaries of Buffoons, Fabulists or Revelers.
2. One who invents falsehoods.
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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
1626 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Publike Thanksgiuing 39 Those bold Fabulists..take a course to cast themselues into that pit, whence [etc.].
1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. ii. iii. 92 The mind of a forger or a fabulist.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 241 The most ingenuous of voyagers has been condemned as an idle fabulist.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. iii. 47 The former [sc. Heraclides] is..confessed to have been an egregious fabulist.
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