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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. Eccl 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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