单词 | affabulation |
释义 | affabulationn. rare. The moral of a fable, tale, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > serious saying, dictum > [noun] > moral moralityc1390 moralc1528 affabulation1641 prudential1719 moralism1836 maxim1883 1641 N. Coppinger Seasonable Speech sig. A3 The Mythologie and Affabulation hereof, may agree with our times; for there may be a Golden Morall contained in a leaden Fable. 1649 J. Arnway Tablet Charles I (ed. 2) 97 As an Affabulation to the Apologue of the hinder parts. 1833 Paris: Bk. One-hundred-and-one II. 202 What great lessons, what sublime affabulations are to be found in a sight, which seems so devoid of meaning to those unable to understand it! 1973 J. M. Miller et al. tr. Priscian in Readings Medieval Rhetoric vi. 53 The moral of the fable, which we call epimythion (and which we can also call the affabulation). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1641 |
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