Verb

(conferr)

(obsolete) To compare.

* 1557 (book title):

The Newe Testament ... Conferred diligently with the Greke, and best approued translations.

*, II.3.1.i:

Confer thine estate with others […]. Be content and rest satisfied, for thou art well in respect to others […].

* Boyle

If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion.

To talk together, to consult, discuss; to deliberate.

* 1974 , "A Traveler's Perils", Time , 25 Mar 1974:

Local buttons popped when Henry Kissinger visited Little Rock last month to confer with Fulbright on the Middle East oil talks.

(obsolete) To bring together; to collect, gather.

To grant as a possession; to bestow.

* Milton

the public marks of honour and reward conferred upon me

* 2010 , Andrew Rawnsley, The Observer , 7 Feb 2010:

The special immunities that are conferred on MPs were framed with the essential purpose of allowing them to speak freely in parliament.

(obsolete) To contribute; to conduce.

* Glanvill

The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union.

Verb

(recognis)

To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.

To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or valid.

To acknowledge or consider as something.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.}}

To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.

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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation , passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”}}

To give an award.