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T. B. Aldrich, Ponkapog to Pesth, p. 229. 3. Fabling; addicted to telling fables. The fabulous voices of some few Poor brain-sick men, styled poets. B. Jonson, Masque of Blackne . What diff'rent Faults corrupt our Muses thus? Wanton as Girls, as Old Wives Fabulous ! Cowley, Death of Crashaw. Fabulous age, that period in the early history of a country of which the accounts are mostly mythical or legen dary, recording chiefly the fabulous achievements of heroes: as, the fabulous age of Greece or Rome. fabulously (fab'u-lus-li), adv . 1. In a fabulous manner; in fable or fiction: as, it is fabu lously related. These things are uncertain and fabulously augmented. Grenewly, Annals of Tacitus, p. 131. 2. Incredibly; to such extent as to exceed probability; hence, enormously; amazingly: as, fabulously rich. fabulousne (fab'ū-lus-nes), n . The quality of being fabulous or fictitious. His [Boëthius's] history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousne and credulity are justly blamed. Johnson, Jour. to Western Isles. faburdent, faburthent, n . and a . [Also fabour don ; a partial accom. of OF. faux - bourdon : see faux - bourdon , and burden3 = burthen3 .] I. n. In medieval music : ( a ) The rudest kind of polyphony, consisting of a melody or cantus firm us with the third and sixth added to each tone: not radically different from organum . In modulation hard I play and sing Fab our doun , pricksang, discant, countering.