fabulate

1. (intransitive) To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.Examples: "Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work."; "The objects remain those of male fantasies, but from the start Maxine associates the ability to fantasize or fabulate with women and with Cantonese: […]"; "It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people."intransitive

2. (transitive, archaic) To relate as or in the manner of a fable.Examples: "Anyone who considers it a pleasure to compose short stories or to fabulate a tale, must remain silent and say nothing of her beauty."archaictransitive

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To tell fables, to narrate with fables.Examples: "The Fort is ſo barricadoed, that it is hard ſcaling it : the refractary Rebell ſo guarded with Euill and Poyſon, ſo warded with unruly and deadly ; as if it were with Gyants in an Inchanted Towre, as they fabulate ; so no man can tame it."intransitiveobsolete