MDDM Ch. 63

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Tue Jul 16 19:36:26 CDT 2002


618.15 Again are the party returning Eastward, into Memory, and
Confabulation.

confabulate vb (intr.) 1. to talk together, converse, chat  2. (Psychiatry)
to replace the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary
remembered experiences consistently believed to be true; see also paramnesia
[17th C. from Latin *confabulari*; from *fabulari*: to talk; from *fabula*:
a story, narrative; from *fari*: to speak, say]

paramnesia n. (Psychiatry) a disorder of the memory or the faculty of
recognition in which dreams may be confused with reality

(Cf. also 627.4 "The Lord thinks he is confabulating ... ")

618.19 Gunpowder ... Biter-Bit Creek

http://www.bym-rsf.org/gmm/

1783 Tax Assessment Maryland - Talbot County

[...]

Francis Baker. Bite the Biter, 35 acres. TA Island, Tuckahoe and Kings Creek
p. 1. MSA S1161-10-4. 1/4/5/53

[...]

Randolph Johnson. Bite the Biter, 206 acres. TA Bolingbroke p. 8. MSA
S1161-10-6. 1/4/5/53

[...]

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1400/s1437/html/1437ta.html

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