Conferred vs Deligated - What's the difference?
conferred | deligated |
(confer)
(obsolete) To compare.
* 1557 (book title):
*, II.3.1.i:
* Boyle
To talk together, to consult, discuss; to deliberate.
* 1974 , "A Traveler's Perils", Time , 25 Mar 1974:
(obsolete) To bring together; to collect, gather.
To grant as a possession; to bestow.
* Milton
* 2010 , Andrew Rawnsley, The Observer , 7 Feb 2010:
(obsolete) To contribute; to conduce.
* Glanvill
(deligate)
(surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
* 1851 , The Medical examiner, and record of medical science: Volume 7 (page 322)
As verbs the difference between conferred and deligated
is that conferred is past tense of confer while deligated is past tense of deligate.conferred
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(head)confer
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(conferr)- The Newe Testament ... Conferred diligently with the Greke, and best approued translations.
- Confer thine estate with others […]. Be content and rest satisfied, for thou art well in respect to others […].
- If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion.
- Local buttons popped when Henry Kissinger visited Little Rock last month to confer with Fulbright on the Middle East oil talks.
- the public marks of honour and reward conferred upon me
- The special immunities that are conferred on MPs were framed with the essential purpose of allowing them to speak freely in parliament.
- The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union.
See also
* cf ----deligated
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Verb
(head)deligate
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(deligat)- Every one is aware of the uncertainty as well as great danger of the different cutting and deligating operations for the removal of this distressing infirmity.