different between memorate vs fabulate

English

Alternative forms

• memorat

Etymology

From Latin memor?tus, past participle of memor?re (“to bring to remembrance, mention, recount”), from memor (“remembering”); see memory.

Noun

memorate (plural memorates)

1. (folklore) an oral narrative from memory relating a personal experience, especially the precursor of a legend.

Verb

memorate (third-person singular simple present memorates, present participle memorating, simple past and past participle memorated)

1. (obsolete) to commemorate
2. (obsolete) to memorize

Related terms

Further reading

• memorate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• memorate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /memor?ate/
• Rhymes: -ate

Adverb

memorate

1. present adverbial passive participle of memori

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /memo?rate/

Verb

memorate

1. adverbial present passive participle of memorar

Interlingua

Participle

memorate

1. past participle of memorar

Latin

Participle

memor?te

1. vocative masculine singular of memor?tus

Verb

memor?te

1. imperative second-person plural of memoro

English

Etymology 1

From Latin f?bul?tus, perfect passive participle of f?bulor (“tell stories, chat”), from f?bula (“fable”).

Verb

fabulate (third-person singular simple present fabulates, present participle fabulating, simple past and past participle fabulated)

1. (intransitive) To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables.
   • 1990, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Tractatus Brevus, Kluwer, page 38:

     Human fears, needs, dreams release the latent propensities of the subliminal soul, and to respond to them the fabulating imagination sets to work.

   • 1992, Donald C. Goellnicht, "Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men, Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling (editors), Reading the Literatures of Asian America, Temple University Press, ?ISBN, page 205:

     The objects remain those of male fantasies, but from the start Maxine associates the ability to fantasize or fabulate with women and with Cantonese: […]

   • 2006, Jérémie Valentin, “Gille Deleuze’s Political Posture”, chapter 12 of Constantin V. Boundas (editor), Deleuze and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, ?ISBN, page 196:

     It is only this posture that permits him to discharge his function as a chief: to fabulate and to summon up the missing people.

2. (transitive, archaic) To relate as or in the manner of a fable.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To tell fables, to narrate with fables.

Derived terms

• fabulation
• fabulator

Etymology 2

Coined around 1934 by folklorist Carl von Sydow to contrast with memorate.

Noun

fabulate (countable and uncountable, plural fabulates)

1. A folk story that is not entirely believable.
2. (specifically) A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.

See also

• memorate

References

Latin

Participle

f?bul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of f?bul?tus