Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fabled"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Fable \Fa"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fabled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fabling}.]
To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write
or utter what is not true. ``He Fables not.'' --Shak.

Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell. --Prior.

He fables, yet speaks truth. --M. Arnold.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

fabled
adj : celebrated in fable or legend; "the fabled Paul Bunyan and
his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James" [syn:
{legendary}]


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