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Usage examples of refers.

Relative autonomy simply refers to a certain flexibility in the face of changing environmental conditions.

But the structural unconscious refers instead to the deep pattern displayed by all the various surface structures within that pattern, and it is unconscious not because it is repressed but simply not yet known.

Also: The term sex refers to biological givens and gender to sociocultural roles.

Like the term Over-Soul, the World Soul always refers to the psychic-level.

Avabhasa refers to psychic-level mysticism as that of yogis and subtle-level mysticism as that of saints.

Petan has been identified as Bintang, and Java Minor refers to Sumatra.

It refers of course to some Portuguese or Spanish voyages, and the Dutch were not speaking for themselves but simply translating a Portuguese or Spanish text relating thereto.

In this case, Shakespeare mistakenly refers to the stolen normal child as the changeling.

Shakespeare refers to Sol as a planet, however, thus insisting that the sun moves and is not the center of the planetary system.

Ulysses refers to summer heat in the notion of Cancer burning because of the entry of great Hyperion.

This refers to an extremely popular medieval cycle of animal stories, in which human failings are placed in animal guise, a device that dates back to Aesop in the Western tradition.

Herod became King of Judea, then, at just about the time that Charmian refers to him so jestingly.

Julius Caesar was the great-uncle of Octavius Caesar, actually, but in his will Julius had adopted Octavius as his son, and Octavius therefore always refers to Julius as his father.

English, it usually refers back to some group mentioned earlier in the text or conversation.

It is apparently not used in a religious sense, but refers to the physical heavens only.