ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] In senses of the verb.
1. Described or mentioned in fable, celebrated in fable; mythical, legendary.
a. 1740. T. Tickell, To a lady, with descr. Phœnix.
| Each fabled charm in matchless Cælia meets, | |
| The heavenly colours, and ambrosial sweets. |
1780. Cowper, Progr. Err., 231.
| Like fabled Tantalus, condemn’d to hear | |
| The precious stream still purling in his ear. |
1813. Shelley, Q. Mab, IV. 89.
| A garden shall arise, in loveliness | |
| Surpassing fabled Eden. |
a. 1853. Robertson, Serm., Ser. III. v. Introd. (1872), 61. Like the fabled monsters of old, from whose dissevered neck the blood sprung forth and formed fresh heads, multiplied and indestructible.
2. Having no real existence, fictitious, invented.
1606. Warner, Alb. Eng., XIV. lxxxiv. (1612), 350. This for no fabled Caution was obserued, but too trew.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XVI. 99.
| Say, do thy subjects in bold faction rise, | |
| Or priests in fabled oracles advise? |
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 188.
| And men by fabled woes were stirred, | |
| Or smiling their own follies heard | |
| Told of some other. |
