9 August 2017
fabulist
[fab-yuh-list]
noun
1. a person who invents or relates fables.
2. a liar.
Origin of fabulist
Middle French
1585-1595; Middle French fabuliste, equivalent to; fābul(a) fable + -iste -ist
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Examples from the Web for fabulist
Contemporary Examples
The fabulist seems to want only to rant in his new monologue.
Mike Daisey’s Monologue ‘Journalism’: This Is Not an Apology Tour
Winston Ross
May 21, 2013
From there stemmed the idea of a fabulist, a man who lives in this alternate reality.
Rebecca Miller on Broadway’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ Revival
Rebecca Miller
May 31, 2012
It is subtitled a “family fable” because there is a moral attached, and because Mac was a fabulist.
The Best of Brit Lit
Peter Stothard
March 17, 2010
To some I will always be a fabulist, a scoundrel, and a liar.
Mike Daisey Remembers Steve Jobs a Year After His Death
Mike Daisey
October 4, 2012
Historical Examples
The fabulist had not in him sufficient hypocrisy of which to manufacture the commonplace politeness of society.
The Fables of La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Gay the fabulist is only interesting in a certain sense and to a small extent.
Views and Reviews
William Ernest Henley
The born poet still talks that way, he is naturally a fabulist and cannot help himself.
Homer’s Odyssey
Denton J. Snider
The fabulist is to create a laugh, but yet, under a merry guise, to convey instruction.
Aesop’s Fables
Aesop
In 1664 La Fontaine published his first collection of fables, and it gave him immediately the very highest rank as a fabulist.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil
David W. Bartlett
That is the fabulist ‘s opinion—Harriet Shelley’s is not reported.
In Defense of Harriet Shelley
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Anagram
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Today’s quote
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
– Woody Allen
On this day
9 August – World Indigenous Day – to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous populations. It also recognises the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues.
9 August 1936 – Jesse Owens, an African-American athlete, wins his 4th gold medal at the Berlin Olympics – much to Adolf Hitler’s chagrin. Hitler had hoped the games would show-case white Aryan ideals, and was disgusted that a black athlete had achieved more than the white athletes.
9 August 1945 – USA drops an atomic bomb, called ‘Fat Boy’ on Nagasaki, Japan. It is estimated that between 60,000 to 80,000 people died within four months of the bombing, with half that number dying on the day of the bombing.