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Refer

verb

(past & past part. referred; pres. part. referring)

Make reference to. Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, name.

Be relevant to. Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, relate, touch, touch on. "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"

Think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another.

Send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision. "Refer a bill to a committee"

Seek information from. Synonyms: consult, look up. "Refer to your notes"

Have as a meaning. Synonym: denote.

Use a name to designate.

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"Refer" Quotes from Famous Books

... of that," replied the stranger, as he looked over a memorandum-book. "I do not know whom you denominate your good landlord; that being no way of describing a man in the eye of the law: but if you refer to the original grantor, or lessor, Francis Folingsby, of Folingsby-place, Monmouthshire, Esq., I am to inform you that he died at Bath ...

— Tales & Novels, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth

... were glad of this pretence for openly joining a cause which they always had secretly favoured. The king was left at Odiham in Hampshire, with a poor retinue of only seven knights; and after trying several expedients to elude the blow, after offering to refer all differences to the pope alone, or to eight barons, four to be chosen by himself, and four by the confederates [k], he found himself at last obliged to submit at discretion. [FN [h] Ibid. p. 177. Chron. Dunst. vol. i. p. 71. [i] M. Paris, p. ...

— The History of England, Volume I • David Hume

... on the duties of the housekeeper, we will briefly refer to the very great responsibility which attaches to her position. Like "Caesar's wife," she should be "above suspicion," and her honesty and sobriety unquestionable; for there are many temptations ...

— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton

... picture representing the horrible execution of the Strelitzes. I said that "such pictures prove that the world does, after all, progress slowly, in spite of what pessimists say, and that in order to refute pessimists one has only to refer to the improvements in criminal law." To this he agreed cordially, and declared the abolition of torture in procedure and penalty to be one great ...

— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White

... He never entertained there. On the rare occasions when visitors were admitted, an unfinished landscape in oils was always on the easel, in a prominent place in his sitting room. He would invariably refer to it, telling one in his humorously unconvincing way that 'he had just put in the butterfly.' Those of us who had seen his work in the drawing class presided over by 'Bully' Wakeman at Portora were not likely to ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

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