Definition of fable

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Fable (v. i.) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true..

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Mythoplasm :: Mythoplasm (n.) A narration of mere fable.
Effable :: Effable (a.) Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.
Affably :: Affably (adv.) In an affable manner; courteously.
Renard :: Renard (n.) A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry..
Fabulist :: Fabulist (n.) One who invents or writes fables.
Daphne :: Daphne (n.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree..
Fable :: Fable (n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
Fable :: Fable (n.) The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem..
Gorgon :: Gorgon (n.) One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa..
Phaethon :: Phaethon (n.) The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po..
Naiad :: Naiad (n.) A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain..
Minotaur :: Minotaur (n.) A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete..
Ganza :: Ganza (n.) A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world..
Bruin :: Bruin (a.) A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.
Ineffableness :: Ineffableness (n.) The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
Affableness :: Affableness (n.) Affability.
Undine :: Undine (n.) One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.
Caduceus :: Caduceus (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top..
Jinnee :: "Jinnee (n.) A genius or demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms..
Prometheus :: Prometheus (n.) The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver..
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