[a. L. fābulātor, agent-n. f. fābulārī (see FABULATE).] One who fabulates or relates fables; a story-teller.
1584. Burgh Rec. Aberdeen, 24 Oct. (Spalding Club), II. 264. He that happinnis to be fabulatour, to bring his candill with him.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. § 17. 298–9. The Greekish Pagans, looking upon this Orpheus, not as a meer Fanciful Poet and Fabulator, but as a Serious and Profound Philosopher, or Mystical Theologer; a Person transcendently Holy and Wise; they supposed all his Fables of the Gods, to be deep Mysteries and Allegories which had some Arcane and Recondite Sence under them.
1701. Grew, Cosm. Sacra, IV. iii. 170. An historical Point, which no Fabulator would have thought of.
1801. Strutt, Sports & Past., III. iii. 163. Some untoward accident having prevented him [the king] from taking his repose so readily as usual, he desired the fabulator to tell him longer stories; who obeyed, and began one upon a more extensive scale, and fell asleep himself in the midst of it.
1841. Disraeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 72. The great then had fabulators or tale-tellers, as royalty has now, by title of their office—its readers.
