Crossword clues for referred
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refer \Re*fer"\ (r[-e]*f[~e]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Referred (r[-e]*f[~e]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Referring.] [F. r['e]f['e]rer, L. referre; pref. re- re- + ferre to bear. See Bear to carry.]
To carry or send back. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.
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To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
To refer one's self, to have recourse; to betake one's self; to make application; to appeal. [Obs.]
I'll refer me to all things sense.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: refer)
WordNet
v. make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" [syn: mention, advert, bring up, cite, name]
have to do with or be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" [syn: pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on]
think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another; "This plant can be referred to a known species"
send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision; "refer a patient to a specialist"; "refer a bill to a committee"
seek information from; "You should consult the dictionary"; "refer to your notes" [syn: consult, look up]
have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' " [syn: denote]
See refer
Usage examples of "referred".
The one referred to is not the one near Ternate, but in the Banda Sea.
Portuguese and Spanish about the line of demarcation was resumed and referred to the Badajos convocation of learned cosmographers and pilots.
Without entering into the intricacies of this debate, I have simply allowed that some of this prenatal research could indeed be genuine, and I have referred to the whole period from conception to birth as fulcrum-0.
Freud referred to as the primary process, which is governed by two general laws, that of displacement and that of condensation.
Thanatos, which are usually referred to as sex and aggression, although that is not the final way that Freud defined them.
The old charts we have referred to preclude the possibility of a discovery by him of the western and eastern shores.
Still, those islands were so much believed to be on the route that Toscanelli referred to them as landing places, when Affonso V should send an expedition in search of the east coast of Asia.
We may therefore be allowed to join the Chief Librarian of the Colombiana Library who thanks him for having caused the fact to be known that the text referred to was the original one.
The prototype from which Behaim, Toscanelli, and others constructed those early globes and maps of the Behaimean and Schonerean type was no doubt of Arabian origin, and may have been similar to the lost map referred to by Albuquerque.
French contained in the cartouches we have referred to, and still greater difficulty in localising these descriptions, for the name of place above each frame is not in every instance the right name according to the description below it.
Quiros obeyed the instructions referred to by Juan de Iturbe, Torres, and others he would certainly have discovered New Zealand and perhaps Australia.
Australian Continent is represented, and in the latter only a portion of New Guinea bearing the name of Papuas, yet the fact remains that an open sea is shown between New Guinea and Australia in the two classes of maps referred to.
The voyage referred to by Galvano may therefore have been accomplished during the first five months of the year 1525.
Journal and proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of, referred to.
Magregor, Sir William: sketch map of part of British New Guinea, referred to by.