Confabulating

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau
           If birds confabulate or no.              --Cowper.
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