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Definition of Confabulates
1. confabulate [v] - See also: confabulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confabulates
Literary usage of Confabulates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1919)
"It then oozes out of its earthly prison, and as Paracelsus has it —"confabulates
with the outward world," and travels round the visible as well as the ..."
2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1894)
"... the Korsakoff patient fabricates prodigiously —confabulates, as we say; and
these ever-changing confabulations serve him for pseudo-memories and save ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1826)
"He would fain be thought too a man of gallantry, and confabulates with every
shepherdess he meets, as if she had been a Manchester spinning-jenny. ..."
4. Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony: Canada, and the American Revolution by Justin Harvey Smith (1907)
"He confabulates instead of charging, and presently he orders a retreat. The column
hurries away. The British cannon speak again, at their leisure, ..."
5. Matthæi Parisiensis, Monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris, Roger (1876)
"6 confabulates} locutus, OW ? oc] a, B. 8 ad , . . deleatur] ut in ore duorum
vel trium testium stet omne verbum. ..."
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