| 单词 | to fable up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fable up 4. transitive. To say or talk about fictitiously; to relate as in a fable, fiction, or myth; to fabricate, invent (an incident, a personage, story, etc.). With simple and object complement, to with infinitive, with sentence as object; also absol. †to fable up: to work up by fiction into. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)] > a story, etc. fable1553 frame1576 to lay together1603 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > invent, concoct [verb (transitive)] forgec1386 contrivec1400 commentc1450 dissimule1483 devisea1535 invent1535 fable1553 coin1561 to make upc1650 manufacture1700 to tell the tale1717 fabricate1779 concoct1792 fob1805 mythologize1851 fabulate1856 phoney1940 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > relate or represent in fiction [verb (transitive)] feign1413 fable1553 to story out1570 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Mvjv What foles do fable, take thou no hede at all. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 96 It is fabled with the Poets, that Ixion, Junoes Secretary, prouoked hir to Venery. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 25 Hee fabled sundrye reportes. 1603 J. Stow Suruay of London (new ed.) 34 Aldersgate..called not of..Eldarne trees..as some haue fabuled. 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xi. 21/2 The Hurlers..fabuled to bee men metamorphosed into stones. 1638 J. Ford Fancies iii. 42 That is a truth much fabled, never found. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 292 Turn this Heav'n it self into the Hell Thou fablest . View more context for this quotation 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. x. 153 Men soon fabl'd up their Histories..into Miracle and Wonder. 1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. i. 8 The most learned of Mortals will never..act over again what is fabled of Alexander. 1750 W. Warburton Julian v Of these [cannon] the Chinese were at liberty to fable what they pleased. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 354 This castle is fabled to have been founded by Ewin. 1797 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings (new ed.) in Poems (ed. 2) 135 Armed Deities, Such as the blind Ionian fabled erst. 1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone iv. 71 More clear Than Ghosts are fabled to appear. 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) iii. 58 I fabled nothing fair, But, your example pilot, told her all. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius viii. 207 The inhabitants fabled that the birds which attempted to fly over it fell down into the water. 1877 L. Morris Epic of Hades iii. 12 And so men fabled me, a huntress. < as lemmas |
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