fabulate

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  1. intransitive verb To engage in the composition of fables or stories, especially those in which the element of fantasy comes into heavy play: "a land which . . . had given itself up to dreaming, to fabulating, to tale-telling” (Lawrence Durrell).

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  1. Latin fābulārī, fābulāt-, to talk, from fābula, tale, talk; see fable.

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  1. from Latin fabulatus, past participle of fabulari, fable: see fable, v.
 

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