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But the problem is older than the imagination of any fabulist, and as new as the newest day in the world.

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  1. noun A composer of fables.
  2. noun A teller of tales; a liar.

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  • “You're a fabulist, Doris I fantasize to pass the time,” she said. —  FSF,April2008
  • President George W. Bush, fabulist-in-chief, articulated the rationale for the program in that trademark way of his -- as if addressing a nation of slow-witted 12-year-olds -- on Sept. 24: "Major financial institutions have teetered on the edge of collapse ... [and] began holding onto their money, and lending dried up, and the gears of the American financial system began grinding to a halt." —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • The ideal president would be an author -- my sentimental favorite was the brilliant fabulist, the late O V Vijayan, who was also an insightful political cartoonist. —  rediff.com
  • He is the only fabulist, of any age or any nation, that, on the score simply of his fables, is admitted to be poet as well as fabulist. —  Classic French Course in English
  • The great and good PILPAY the fabulist, is said to have used that kind of exhibition as a medium for conveying political instruction to a despotic prince, his master, to whom he dared not to utter the dictates of truth, in any other garb. —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French fabuliste, from Latin fābula, fable; see fable.

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  1. = French fabuliste = Spanish Portuguese fabulista (the L. term being fabulator), from Latin fabula, a fable.
 

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/ˈfæbjulɪst/
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