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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Triton :: Triton (n.) A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell..
Affable :: Affable (a.) Gracious; mild; benign.
Facile :: Facile (a.) Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant..
Minos :: Minos (n.) A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions..
Mercurial :: Mercurial (a.) Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament..
Cyclops :: Cyclops (n. sing. & pl.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna..
Homiletical :: Homiletical (a.) Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable.
Suaviloquent :: Suavify (v. t.) To make affable or suave.
Lie :: Lie (n.) A fiction; a fable; an untruth.
Application :: Application (n.) Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the moral of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry..
Effable :: Effable (a.) Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.
Moral :: Moral (n.) The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim..
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..
Unutterable :: Unutterable (a.) Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish..
Silent :: Silent (a.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in fable..
Ganza :: Ganza (n.) A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world..
Inaffable :: Inaffable (a.) Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.
Mischiefable :: Mischiefable (a.) Mischievous.
Fable :: Fable (n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
Ambrosia :: Ambrosia (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it..
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