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Confer   /kənfˈər/   Listen
verb
Confer  v. t.  (past & past part. conferred; pres. part. conferring)  
1.
To bring together for comparison; to compare. (Obs.) "If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion."
2.
To grant as a possession; to bestow. "The public marks of honor and reward Conferred upon me."
3.
To contribute; to conduce. (Obs.) "The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union."


Confer  v. i.  To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate. "Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered." "You shall hear us confer of this."
Synonyms: To counsel; advise; discourse; converse.





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"Confer" Quotes from Famous Books



... chasm between the real and phenomenal worlds fairly bridged over. Of course, it disappointed me in the end; but what of that? To have kindled and for a time sustained the expectation which should render possible such disappointment was a benefit that a whole Bodleian Library might fail to confer. These benefits come to us not from the writer as such, but from the man behind the writer. He who dwells aloft amid the deathless orient imaginations of the human race, easily inhabiting their atmosphere ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... love and scorn, As all divinest natures are; If 'twixt her lips such words are born, As can but Heaven or Hell confer: Bid Love be still, nor ever speak, Lest he his own ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various
... of April, my husband and myself expect to sail for England on the invitation of the Anti-Slavery Society of the Ladies and Gentlemen of Glasgow, to confer with ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe
... reasonably be suspected. The philosophy of ferns is most ill understood, the higher points connected with them have been quite neglected, and botanists in this as in other departments of the science have been contented to confer names on certain external forms, without ...
— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith
... to be that, in the olden time, the king had unlimited power in matters of honour and precedence, and could confer whatever dignity or pre-eminence he thought fit, upon any of his subjects. That this power has been expressly restrained, quoad the Parliament Chamber and the Council, but exists ...
— The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) - A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 - (Volume 1 of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville


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