Fabaceous,fà-ba'-she-us

fa-ba'-she-us, a. like a bean. in imitation of the policy of Fabius Maximus, the famous Roman general, with Hannibal. in which, for most part, inferior creatures are introduced and represented as speaking and acting like human beings, in order to enforce some moral le on; the plot, or connected series of events, in an epic or dramatic poem; a fabrication; talk: v.n. to write fables; to tell falsehoods: v.a. to devise and speak of as truer real(L.fabula, narration, from far i,to speak). for recitation, held in favour in France about the 12th and 13th centuries,dealing in an epigrammatic vein with the go ip of the day.