ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
[1775. Ash.]
1809. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1859), 142. They are more amusing than plain, unfabled precept.
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, xxvii. Not thickly, as the diamonds were scattered in the valley of Sindbad, but sparely, as those gems lie in unfabled beds.
