DEFER

v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton.

2.
v.

To put off; to delay to act; to wait. Pius was able to defer and temporize at leisure. J. A. Symonds.

3.
v.

To render or offer. [Obs.] Worship deferred to the Virgin. Brevint.

4.
v.

To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to. Hereupon the commissioners . . . deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland. Bacon.

5.
v.

To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to. The house, deferring to legal right, acquiesced. Bancroft.

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