Defer
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Defer - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
DEFER, v.t. [L. To bear.]
1. To delay; to put off; to postpone to a future time; as, to defer the execution of a design.
When thou vowest a vow, defer not to pay it. Eccl 5.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Prov 13.
2. To refer; to leave to anothers judgment and determination.
[In this sense, refer is now used.]
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