Definition of confer

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Confer (v. i.) To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.

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Vest :: Vest (n.) To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death..
Interlocution :: Interlocution (n.) Interchange of speech; dialogue; conversation; conference.
Grant :: Grant (v. t.) The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
Commissionary :: Commissionary (a.) Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant..
Conferee :: Conferee (n.) One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate..
Confervous :: Confervous (a.) Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae..
Commission :: Commission (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission..
Distinguish :: Distinguish (v. t.) To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; -- with by or for.
Doctor :: Doctor (v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
Protonema :: Protonema (n.) The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed..
Beneficial :: Beneficial (a.) Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.
Consultative :: Consultative (a.) Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference.
Carburetor :: Carburetor (n.) An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power..
Afford :: Afford (v. t.) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age..
Denominative :: Denominative (a.) Conferring a denomination or name.
Shogun :: Shogun (n.) A title originally conferred by the Mikado on the military governor of the eastern provinces of Japan. By gradual usurpation of power the Shoguns (known to foreigners as Tycoons) became finally the virtual rulers of Japan. The title was abolished in 1867.
Conferring :: Conferring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confe.
Conference :: Conference (n.) A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
Curule :: Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official..
Consultation :: Consultation (n.) A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause..
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