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. Eccles. 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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