v. [f. ppl. stem of L. confābulārī, f. con- together + fābulārī to talk, chat, f. fābula a tale: see FABLE.] intr. To talk familiarly together, converse, chat.
1613. R. C., Table Alph. (ed. 3), Confabulate, to talke together.
1656. H. More, Enthus. Tri. (1712), 32. This body and the Stars confabulating together, the Mind is informed of things to come.
1732. Hist. Litteraria, III. 72. Moses and Elias were at the Transfiguration, and did confabulate with Jesus.
1785. Cowper, Pairing Time, 2. I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 419. The women … often awake to confabulate even at midnight.
1873. Browning, Red Cott. Nt.-cap, 248. They did not cluster on the tree tops … caw and confabulate For nothing.
