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fabler (c.1136-65)
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fabler (c.1136-65)

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fableier,  fableir,  fabloier  (flabler 9796)  
  FEW:  fabulari 3,345b Gdf:  fabler 3,691c / fablier 3,692b GdfC: ∅ TL: fabler 3,1546 / fabliier 3,1546 DEAF:  fabler F10 / fabler (fabloier) F12 DMF:  fabler  / fabloyer  TLF: ∅ OED:  fable v.  MED:  fablen v.  DMLBS:  fabulari 885c

v.intrans.

to tell (fictitious) stories, tales: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Es places solent cil hanter Ki delit aiment seculer De lecheries de moiller, D'oir chanter e fableier  4772
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Je ne di mie fable ne je ne voil fabler, Testemoingne m’en poent cil de Fesamp porter  i 60.1355
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  chevaler cortois [...] content e fabloient a tolir lur anuit  1653
( MS: c.1335 )  Puis que de fabler ay comencé, Ja n'y ert pur moun travail lessé  iii 110.1
fabler de
to tell the story of: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Brecheliant Donc Breton vont sovent fablant  ii 121.6374
fabler d'icel e d'el
to talk about this and that, chat: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Eissi entr'els d'icel e d'al Fablerent auqes longement  2905
fabler ové
to chat, converse with: 
( s.xiiim?; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Et cum vus averez repris vostre parole, se vos fablés ovesques eux (=the sick, bed-ridden) et loez la region et la disposition de la mesun  ii 21

sbst. inf.

pej.telling stories, lying: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  En murmuire e detraction S'abandone od dampnation, Kar en fabler e en mentir Fait en enfern s'alme perir  10815
sanz fabler
in truth, truly: 
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xivin )  Ki en els enter sanz returnir, Dampné serra saunz fabler  36

p.pr. as s.

story-teller: 
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Scille ad nun, dunt li fableant Dient ke chiens i ad baant  1539

See also:

fable1 
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