Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FAB'U-LOUS, a.

1. Feigned, as a story; devised; fictitious; as, a fabulous story; a fabulous description.
2. Related in fable; described or celebrated in fables; invented; not real; as, a fabulous hero; the fabulous exploits of Hercules.
3. The fabulous age of Greece and Rome, was the early age of those countries, the accounts of which are mostly fabulous, or in which the fabulous achievements of their heroes were performed; called also the heroic age.