Definition of "fable"
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A fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.
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Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
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Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
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verb:
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To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
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To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
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