"fabulate" meaning in All languages combined

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        "3": "",
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    },
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        "1": "la",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "fable"
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      "expansion": "fābula (“fable”)",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin fābulātus, perfect passive participle of fābulor (“tell stories, chat”), from fābula (“fable”).",
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    {
      "form": "fabulates",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fabulating",
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        "participle",
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      "form": "fabulated",
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        {
          "ref": "1990, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Tractatus Brevus, Kluwer, page 38",
          "text": "Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Donald C. Goellnicht, \"Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men, Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling (editors), Reading the Literatures of Asian America, Temple University Press, page 205",
          "text": "The objects remain those of male fantasies, but from the start Maxine associates the ability to fantasize or fabulate with women and with Cantonese: […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Jérémie Valentin, “Gille Deleuze’s Political Posture”, chapter 12 of Constantin V. Boundas (editor), Deleuze and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, page 196",
          "text": "It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables."
      ],
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          "invent"
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        [
          "fable",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables."
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Marianne Kalinke, Bridal-quest Romance in Medieval Iceland, page 74",
          "text": "Anyone who considers it a pleasure to compose short stories or to fabulate a tale, must remain silent and say nothing of her beauty.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To relate as or in the manner of a fable."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, archaic) To relate as or in the manner of a fable."
      ],
      "tags": [
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1630, Thomas Adams, “The Taming of the Tongve”, in The Workes of Tho: Adams, page 143",
          "text": "The Fort is ſo barricadoed, that it is hard ſcaling it : the refractary Rebell ſo guarded with Euill and Poyſon, ſo warded with unruly and deadly ; as if it were with Gyants in an Inchanted Towre, as they fabulate ; so no man can tame it.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      ],
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        "To tell fables, to narrate with fables."
      ],
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          "narrate",
          "narrate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, obsolete) To tell fables, to narrate with fables."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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  "etymology_text": "Coined around 1934 by folklorist Carl von Sydow to contrast with memorate.",
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          "ref": "1974, Linda Dégh, Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, →DOI, page 232",
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        "(specifically) A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true."
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          "ref": "1990, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Tractatus Brevus, Kluwer, page 38",
          "text": "Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Donald C. Goellnicht, \"Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men, Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling (editors), Reading the Literatures of Asian America, Temple University Press, page 205",
          "text": "The objects remain those of male fantasies, but from the start Maxine associates the ability to fantasize or fabulate with women and with Cantonese: […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Jérémie Valentin, “Gille Deleuze’s Political Posture”, chapter 12 of Constantin V. Boundas (editor), Deleuze and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, page 196",
          "text": "It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people."
        }
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        "(intransitive) To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables."
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          "ref": "1990, Marianne Kalinke, Bridal-quest Romance in Medieval Iceland, page 74",
          "text": "Anyone who considers it a pleasure to compose short stories or to fabulate a tale, must remain silent and say nothing of her beauty.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To relate as or in the manner of a fable."
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        "(transitive, archaic) To relate as or in the manner of a fable."
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          "ref": "1630, Thomas Adams, “The Taming of the Tongve”, in The Workes of Tho: Adams, page 143",
          "text": "The Fort is ſo barricadoed, that it is hard ſcaling it : the refractary Rebell ſo guarded with Euill and Poyſon, ſo warded with unruly and deadly ; as if it were with Gyants in an Inchanted Towre, as they fabulate ; so no man can tame it.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      ],
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        "(intransitive, obsolete) To tell fables, to narrate with fables."
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