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Refer \Re*fer"\ (r[-e]*f[~e]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Referred}
(r[-e]*f[~e]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Referring}.] [F.
r['e]f['e]rer, L. referre; pref. re- re- ferre to bear. See
{Bear} to carry.]
1. To carry or send back. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct
elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision,
etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer
a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer;
to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of
fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a
question of law to a superior tribunal.
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3. To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to
assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason,
or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to
electrical disturbances.
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{To refer one's self}, to have recourse; to betake one's
self; to make application; to appeal. [Obs.]
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I'll refer me to all things sense. --Shak.
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Refer \Re*fer"\, v. i.
1. To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's
self; as, to refer to a dictionary.
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In suits . . . it is to refer to some friend of
trust. --Bacon.
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2. To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as,
the figure refers to a footnote.
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Of those places that refer to the shutting and
opening the abyss, I take notice of that in Job.
--Bp. Burnet.
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3. To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the
preacher referred to the late election.
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4. To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any
kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity,
pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his
employer for the truth of his story.
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Syn: To allude; advert; suggest; appeal.

Usage: {Refer}, {Allude}, {Advert}. We refer to a thing by
specifically and distinctly introducing it into our
discourse. We allude to it by introducing it
indirectly or indefinitely, as by something
collaterally allied to it. We advert to it by turning
off somewhat abruptly to consider it more at large.
Thus, Macaulay refers to the early condition of
England at the opening of his history; he alludes to
these statements from time to time; and adverts, in
the progress of his work, to various circumstances of
peculiar interest, on which for a time he dwells. "But
to do good is . . . that that Solomon chiefly refers
to in the text." --Sharp. "This, I doubt not, was that
artificial structure here alluded to." --T. Burnet.
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Now to the universal whole advert:
The earth regard as of that whole a part.
--Blackmore.
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