Word Finder - fable

definition

A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

synonyms

• morality play

definition

Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

synonyms

• legend

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Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

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The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

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To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.

definition

To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.

synonyms

• devise
• feign
• invent
• make up

The whole fable about how her stepson died was a fabrication.

Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes.

On this occasion he recited the well-known fable of the belly and the members.

He wrote a fantastic fable which he wanted to read to the rest of the class.

This story is mere fable, for the problem is far older than Plato.

Many Utopias, such as the Fable of the Bees and Erewhon, are designed to satirize existing social conditions as well as to depict a more perfect civilization.

The fable was that this constellation was one of the arrows with which Hercules killed the vulture which gnawed the liver of Prometheus.

The old fable of this bird inserting its beak into a reed or plunging it into the ground, and so causing the booming sound with which its name will be always associated, is also exploded, and nowadays indeed so few people in Britain have ever heard its loud and awful voice, which seems to be uttered only in the breeding-season, and is therefore unknown in a country where it no longer breeds, that incredulity as to its booming at all has in some quarters succeeded the old belief in this as in other reputed peculiarites of the species.

What else is this story, beside a beast fable?

It changed thought into an emotional dream; it plunged into the ocean of sentiment; it treated the old world of fable as the reflection of a higher reality, and transformed reality into poetry; and after all these expedients, to borrow a phrase of Augustine's, it only saw afar off the land of its desire.

It is easy for the student now to show the inadequacy of his sources, and his failure here or there to discriminate between fact and fable.

Fable is a role playing game with strong action-adventure gameplay elements.

The French legend of the knight of the swan is attached to the house of Bouillon, and although William of Tyre refers to it about 1170 as fable, it was incorporated without question by later annalists.

Two shepherds, Amintas and Faustus, discuss the familiar theme of the respective merits of town and country life, and relate a quaint fable of the origin of the different classes of society.

He never, it should be 1 Nor all a lie, nor all true, nor all fable, nor all known, so much have the story-tellers told, and the fablers fabled, in order to embellish their tales, that they have made all seem fable.

In the South Sea Islands, generally, the fable of the union and separation of Heaven and Earth is current; other forms will be found in Gill's Myths and Songs from the South Pacific. The cosmogonic myths of the Aryans of India are peculiarly interesting, as we find in the Vedas and Brahmanas and Puranas almost every fiction familiar to savages side by side with the most abstract metaphysical speculations.

Fable II has won several awards, including Game of the Year honors from more than one publication.

He speaks of "his fine expression, elegancy and quaintness," and adds, "he does so possess the soul with his graces that we forget those of his fable."

The early history of Navarre has been overlaid with fable, and with pure falsification, largely the work of the Benedictines of San Juan de la Pea near Huesca Their object was to prove the foundation of their house by a.

All this appears in the form of a story or fable, called an allegory.

Melee combat is pretty much the meat and potatoes of Fable.

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Children write a play script based on a well known fable or story.

Sir John Tenniel, who was already famous for his cartoons in Punch, a comic for adults, illustrated the fable.

Even using such broad strokes, Fridriksson could have created a more compelling fable.

On all this the recent archaeological discoveries (see the section on Archaeology) have thrown great light, but the earliest written history of Crete, like that of most parts of continental Greece, is mixed up with mythology and fable to so great an extent as to render it difficult to arrive at any clear conclusions concerning it.

Andrew's report to his sovereign, whom he rejoined in 1251 at Caesarea in Palestine, appears to have been a mixture of history and fable; the latter affects his narrative of the Mongols' rise to greatness, and the struggles of their leader, evidently Jenghiz Khan, with Prester John; it is still more evident in the position assigned to the Tatar homeland, close to the prison of Gog and Magog.

It was a period with him of great mental activity, and is represented by four of his books which stand as admirable witnesses to the Lowell of 1848, namely, the second series of Poems, containing among others "Columbus," "An Indian Summer Reverie," "To the Dandelion," "The Changeling"; A Fable for Critics, in which, after the manner of Leigh Hunt's The Feast of the Poets, he characterizes in witty verse and with good-natured satire American contemporary writers, and in which, the publication being anonymous, he included himself; The Vision of Sir Launfal, a romantic story suggested by the Arthurian legends - one of his most popular poems; and finally The Biglow Papers.

For, as not a single pilgrim passes through the Wicket Gate in infancy, and as Faithful hurries past the House Beautiful without stopping, the lesson which the fable in its altered shape teaches, is that none but adults ought to be baptized, and that the eucharist may safely be neglected.

A similar fable of an original choice, in which the chooser is beguiled by appearances, recurs in Africa and North America (see the caskets in the Merchant of Venice).

The chimera is a mysterious mythical creature, only a fable.

When you think about retirement and estate planning, consider the fable of the grasshopper and the ant.

With less of a focus on violence and more of a focus on magic and fantasy, the Fable series of role-playing games made a big splash on the Microsoft Xbox 360.

One of the best Xbox 360 games is from the Fable franchise and Fable III is set for release in October 2010.

Taking place in a fantasy world, Fable III lets players continue the role of the child from Fable II, except now he can rise to become the ruler of Albion.

Here is where you'll get your first taste of Fable's "moral alignment" system, where you decide, more or less, if you want to be a good kid or a bad kid.

The adventure in Fable involves you doing various quest around the land of Albion.

Whether these be quests from the Heroes' Guild that advance the story, or simply doing small tasks for one of the villagers, is entirely up to you.The combat in Fable is simple yet varied enough to keep it interesting.

They are passed off as fable or reduced to the status of mistaken accounts of volcanic explosions in the Aegean.

Different foes will attack you in different ways, though once you get used to the workings of Fable, it's never that difficult to win a fight.

Fable's somewhat cartoony style works very well.

With all of the focus on Fable's morality system, it really seems like they could've spent some more time on the actually content of the game.

Not to say that it's bad, quite the opposite, but aside from the moral choices that affect the game, everything about Fable seems like it's been done before.

Nevertheless, Fable is a worthwhile adventure, and the morality system is definitely worth checking out.

Unless you have an utter hatred for RPGs, I'd say Fable is definitely worth at least a rental.

Fable is an open-ended role-playing game designed for Xbox where you mold the character from childhood, through maturity and old age.

Fable is his answer to that call, and as far as revolutionary steps are concerned, this game is full of them.

However, I don't think that they stand in the way of the experience Fable offers.

The monkey print is based on the famous Monkey King from the Chinese fable who could transform into 72 different images.

The name, however, is so obscured by myth and fable as scarcely to belong to history.