The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confabulate \Con*fab"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Confabulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Confabulating.] [L. confabulatus, p. p. of confabulary, to converse together; con- + fabulary to speak, fr. fabul
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See Fable.] To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.
I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no.
--Cowper.
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vb. (en-past of: confabulate)
Usage examples of "confabulated".
If I confabulated it, why didn't I see an Angel of Light or a golden stairway?
Or maybe it was the other way around, and she'd confabulated the Titanic from the ship on the cover of her textbook.
I surely wouldn't have confabulated a detail that specific, she thought, punching in Kit's number, and then remembered Mr.
She'd have no proof she hadn't had advance knowledge of his death, that she hadn't talked to Kit first and then confabulated Mr.
Maisie must have accidentally mentioned his name, and, to cover, so her mother wouldn't find out he'd been there telling her about Joanna, she'd said something about the project, and her mother had confabulated it, through her powers of positive thinking, into a miracle cure.
That he'd confabulated his NDE out of images from the movies and Joanna's NDEs.
Some of the memories have to be confabulated or dreamed the Moms would never have had a divan with burns in it.
Then there were the lost weeks of his life, invisible to him now, which he had replaced with spurious, confabulated memories.
The music went swirling out raggedly across the town square, and villagers and visitors alike took part in a wild dance, mourning and celebration both confabulated into one outpouring of emotion.
Presently a shabby, furtive little rat of a man nudged his elbow, and Dupont followed him to a corner, where they confabulated in undertones for many minutes.