v. Obs. [f. L. fābul-a FABLE + -IZE.] a. intr. To invent fables. b. trans. To concoct, invent. c. To relate as legend: with sentence as obj. d. To dress up as a fable.
1612. trans. Benvenuto’s Passenger, I. i. § 19. 71. Endlesly among themselves they fabulize, nourish the mistery, laugh, play, ieast, dance, leap, skip, make gambols, friske, lauish, triumph, & with all delight wallow wantonly in their idlenesse.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter i. 16. They did but fabulize an apish imitation of God’s truth.
1738. G. Smith, Curious Relations, II. 530. The Persians fabulize in their Alcoran, that [etc.].
1818. G. S. Faber, Horæ Mosaicæ, I. 251. It is utterly impossible that it [the Pentateuch] could thus grossly have fabulized.
Hence Fabulized ppl. a. Fabulizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1819. G. S. Faber, Dispensations (1823), I. 241. In consequence of the elevation of real mortals to the sphere, their fabulized history came to be inscribed upon it. Ibid. (1816), Orig. Pagan Idol., I. 315. The very wildest style of oriental fabulizing. Ibid., II. 502. The fabulizing monks of the holy sepulchre. Ibid., III. 334. A fabulizing martyrology.
