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t. & i. [Fr. déférer, from Lat. defero =to bear down or to offer to a person: de = down, and fero = to bear.] IMG:content-2019.png:[blocks in formation] ferred the matter to the Earle of North umber land.""The commi ioners, being somewhat astonished, de Bacon : Henry VII ., p. 67. B. In trans.: To yield or give way to the opinion of another; to submit; to pay deference. "In peace and war, in council and in fight; And all I move, deferring to thy sway.' Pope : Homer's Iliad , xii. 250, 251.