| 单词 | fabulous age |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfabulous age 3. Of a narrative: Of the nature of a fable or myth, full of fables, unhistorical, legendary. fabulous age, fabulous period, etc.: one of which the accounts are chiefly or entirely mythical. ΘΚΠ 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] fabulous1555 legendary1570 poetic1610 mythological1614 romantic1654 mythologic1664 legendous1686 fabular1690 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 215v Such thynges as..haue byn wrytten of..the places where spices growe, are all fabulous and false. 1656 Manasseh ben Israel Vindiciæ Judæorum i. 12 I have seen a fabulous Narrative of the proceedings of a great Council of the Iewes. 1712 A. Philips Distrest Mother Pref. A Matter of Fact..far removed into the dark and fabulous Ages. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 255 The story..is in a great measure fabulous . View more context for this quotation a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) iii. 78 The fabulous chronicles of those ages. 1871 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce i. ii. 60 The Chinese possess..their fabulous and semi-historical periods. < as lemmas |
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