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Fable vs Magician - What's the difference?

fable | magician |

As nouns the difference between fable and magician

is that fable is a fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue prototypically, while magician is a person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.

As a verb fable

is (archaic) to compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.

fable

English

(wikipedia fable)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, .
  • Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
  • * 4:7,
  • Old wives' fables .
  • * ,
  • We grew / The fable of the city where we dwelt.
  • Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
  • * ,
  • It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.
  • The plot, story, or connected series of events forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
  • * Dryden
  • The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.

    Synonyms

    * (fiction to enforce a useful precept) morality play * (story to excite wonder) legend * (falsehood)

    Verb

    (fabl)
  • (archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
  • * Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI , IV-ii:
  • He Fables not.
  • * :
  • Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.
  • * :
  • He fables , yet speaks truth.
  • (archaic) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
  • * :
  • The hell thou fablest .

    References

    * (Webster 1913) ----

    magician

    Alternative forms

    * magitian (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
  • A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts (often derogatory).
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians ”.}}
  • A performer of tricks or an escapologist.
  • An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
  • A person who astounds, is an enigma.
  • Synonyms

    * (practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic) sorcerer, thaumaturge, wizard, warlock, witch, magic user * (spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts) spiritualist, mystic, witch doctor * (performer of tricks) wizard, trickster, stage magician * (talented craftsman or scientist) whizz, whiz, wiz, wizard * phenomenon * See also