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Fabulist   Listen
noun
Fabulist  n.  One who invents or writes fables.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fabulist" Quotes from Famous Books



... not sound well from the scientific rostrum, for the prevailing notion among scientists is that the poet is a fabulist, and is therefore as far off as possible from the platform they occupy. No one, however, can really understand a people who remains outside the pale of the world of imagination in which it finds its deepest joys; and ...
— An Ethnologist's View of History • Daniel G. Brinton

... found an illustrator in Granville, so, too, in Egypt the draughtsman brought his reed to the aid of the fabulist, and by his cleverly executed sketches gave greater point to the sarcasm of story than mere words could have conveyed. Where the author had briefly mentioned that the jackal and the cat had cunningly forced their services on the animals whom they wished to devour at their leisure, the artist ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12) • G. Maspero



Words linked to "Fabulist" :   storyteller, teller, fable, Aesop



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