Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of fable; fabulous.
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- adjective Of, or pertaining to,
fables . - adjective In the form of a fable.
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Examples
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All the charmed, fabular beasts caught as if under a spell.
Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing Jay Kirk 2010
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Betty T, I know there are a few adult books about the truce, and some picture books that cast a fabular glow over the whole thing, but Murphy's book is really good.
From Cape Cod to Christmas Roger Sutton 2009
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Spielberg is presumably attempting to infuse his film with a fairytale, fabular quality – but all he does is provide it with a directorial straitjacket, with the audience instructed through insistent camera angles, nagging music, and strategised lighting exactly what it's supposed to be feeling at any given moment.
War Horse – review 2011
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In a bustling and minutely imagined fabular landscape, crammed with allegorical figures and places, Luka moves swiftly between the mythological and the contemporary; one minute he is meeting all manner of gods and goddesses, the other he's subject to the laws of the videogame, keeping a close eye on the number of "lives" he has left and trying to save his progress through various levels.
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review Alex Clark 2010
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Invention (the invention of a generation, of this generation) cannot maintain the purity of its fictional or fabular status. 27
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If this means, as he explains, that the genealogical narrative he provides apparently has no referent, his identification of its fictional — indeed fabular — status does not lead him to abandon this narrative.
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In its haunting voice and its inevitable movement, both fabular and precise, it is a nearly perfect work, still as singular and eerie today as when it was published, in 1980.
The Minister's Tale 2004
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In its haunting voice and its inevitable movement, both fabular and precise, it is a nearly perfect work, still as singular and eerie today as when it was published, in 1980.
The Minister's Tale 2004
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In its haunting voice and its inevitable movement, both fabular and precise, it is a nearly perfect work, still as singular and eerie today as when it was published, in 1980.
The Minister's Tale 2004
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The fabular relations of the poets are so careful of decorum, that they never leave a Hercules destitute of necessaries; but those still spring, as out of some fountain, as well for him as for his companions.
shevek commented on the word fabular
I propose this word for the now uncommon elder meaning of fabulous: fictitious, made up, or incredible.
August 26, 2008