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Another word for confer

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confer

v.

To grant as a gift
bestow, give, award, present; see give 1.
To hold a conference
converse, deliberate, parley; see consult, discuss, talk 1. See syn. study at give.

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Another word for confer

verb

To meet and exchange views to reach a decision:
advise, consult, deliberate, parley, talk. (Informal) powwow. See collect, meet, words
To give formally or officially:
accord, award, bestow, grant, present². See give

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The faculties of medicine confer the degree of doctor of medicine.
This time a board of Eight Men was chosen to confer with him.
The faculties of theology confer the degrees of bachelor, lice~itiate and doctor of theology.
All the while, however, the patents of the admiralty judge purported to confer on him a far ampler jurisdiction than the jealousy of the other courts would concede to him.
Mrs Buchan claimed prophetic inspiration and pretended to confer the Holy Ghost upon her followers by breathing upon them; they believed that the millennium was near, and that they would not die, but be translated.

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