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Definition of Confabulatory
1. a. Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue.
Definition of Confabulatory
1. Adjective. colloquial ¹
2. Adjective. conversational ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confabulatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confabulatory
Literary usage of Confabulatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"He divides it into four large groups, (i) systematized, (2) expansive, (3)
confabulatory, and (4) fantastic. Each of these types is described in detail. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"... famous Stanzas—and here, sitting beneath the sea-fronting porch of our Marine
Villa, indulge in a confabulatory critique. The Wanderings are at an end. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"confabulatory, (kgn-fab'-u-la-tur-e) a. Belonging to talk or prattle, or in the
way of dialogue. ..."
4. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1906)
"(f) Chronic confabulatory hallucinatory Paranoia. In this assemblage are to be
found conditions the most diverse from all points of view,—etiology, ..."
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