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Definition of Confabulating
1. confabulate [v] - See also: confabulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confabulating
Literary usage of Confabulating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"... confidentially confabulating with his own nose; "'This will be a good haul;
I'll go in for this ! ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"... and conceiving the congregating, confabulating, and consulting of Convocation
to be conducive to controversy and contention, and consequent conflicts, ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"(3) confabulating form, very similar to the last but charac-\ terized by the
development of very marked memory falsifications. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"... the shaven bonzes running from one room into- another and confabulating among
themselves. I loaded the five chambers of my revolver, and kept ready for ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"There are the bathing women confabulating, there is the epicure buying a fish,
and the scientific man picking up his specimens, and the naughty boy dragged ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1858)
"Respectability confabulating with offal !— disgrace ! And Jasper had on the last
two or three visits been peculiarly disagreeable. He had talked lond. ..."
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