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fabulate
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fab·u·late  (fby-lt)
intr.v. fab·u·lat·ed, fab·u·lat·ing, fab·u·lates
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).

[Latin fbulr, fbult-, to talk, from fbula, tale, talk; see fable.]

fabu·lation n.
fabu·lator n.


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In the last astonishing pages of The Chaneysville Incident, the historian becomes a teller of stories, a fabulator, a griot almost, who accounts for, as a traditional historian cannot, what has gone unrecorded.
 
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