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Hey, Natick readers. What book and fictional character has done the best job of making some time in history "come alive" for you?

fabulate


Pronunciation: /ˈfabyəˌlāt
verb
[with object]
1 Relate (an event or events) as a fable or story.
1.1 [no object] Relate untrue or invented stories.

Origin
early 17th century: from Latin fabulat- 'narrated as a fable', from the verb fabulari, from fabula (see fable).

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Historical novelists fabulate characters to make history come alive, giving the real events a human on whom we can focus but who needs not be a real person in history.



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