Hypertext Webster Gateway: "confabulate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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. fabula. See {Fable}.]
To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.
I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds
confabulate or no. --Cowper.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
confabulate
v 1: unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory
(psychiatry)
2: chew the fat; shoot the breeze [syn: {chat}, {confab}, {chitchat},
{chatter}, {chaffer}, {natter}, {gossip}, {jaw}, {claver},
{visit}]
3: have a conference in order to talk something over; "We
conferred about a plan of action" [syn: {confer}, {confab},
{consult}]
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