Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-FAB'U-LATE
CON-FAB'U-LATE, v.i. [L. confabulor; con and fabulor, to tell. See Fable.]
To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. If birds confabulate or no. [Little used.] – Cowper.
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