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fabulist
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fabulist \Fab"u*list\, n. [Cf. F. fabuliste, fr. L. fabula. See Fable .] One who invents or writes fables.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who tells or invents fables
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 one who writes or tells fables 2 a liar
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "inventor or writer of fables," from French fabuliste , from Latin fabula "story, tale" (see fable (n.)). The earlier word in English was fabler (late 14c.); the Latin term was fabulator .
Usage examples of fabulist.
Vorlons would believe this another fabulist defection, and would argue with new fervor that they must all be killed, before it was too late.
The fabulist approached the main settlement, circled the stronghold of the maelstrom.
Kosh stopped a safe distance from the planet, the fabulist ship rose up through the haze of the atmosphere.
If this fabulist truly did destroy without discrimination, then he had succumbed to the dream of the maelstrom.
If the fabulist did not attack, that would be evidence sufficient to placate the others.
But if the fabulist had fallen to chaos, then he would attempt to destroy Kosh.
That fabulist had separated briefly from the others, had rescued the sole survivor of the abhorrent experiments that had occurred in the Lanep system.
Rochefoucauld patronised and protected, was the great French fabulist, La Fontaine.
The fabulists spun their fictions, which they claimed were as real as any reality, and declared that the Elder Eddas is that which we create.
In the fourth and third buildings the fabulists created their three-dimensional tone poems while in the second building, certain historians were reconstructing in miniature the underground cities of Old Earth.
Next to me, near the center of the long room, there were a couple of fabulists, no doubt seeking inspirations for work of their own.
But some among the Vorlons, he knew, would say the probes revealed a further connection between the fabulists and the forces of chaos, an interest that could perhaps lead to alliance.
Although the plans of the fabulists were always difficult to decipher, Kosh believed this was their true intent.
Kell had left the fabulists after his students had joined with the forces of chaos.
Kosh had believed him an honorable leader, yet the fabulists were in a difficult position, caught between order and chaos.