reconfer

English

Etymology

re- +‎ confer

Verb

reconfer (third-person singular simple present reconfers, present participle reconferring, simple past and past participle reconferred)

1. To confer again.
   1. To grant or transfer ownership again.
      • 1831, Register of Debates in Congress:

        The bank comes forward, and asks us to reconfer on it these extravagant, alarming, and, I fear, ultimately ruinous privileges;

      • 1882, Rajkumar Sarvadhikari, The Taluqdari Settlement in Oudh, page 28:

        The main object and principle of the settlement was to reconfer proprietary rights on persons possessing the strongest prescriptive title, and to impose a moderate assessment.

      • 2000, Robert Matz, Defending Literature in Early Modern England, →ISBN:

        Pierre Bourdieu has described how the late holders of a title that confers less status than it once did – less than it once promised – are forced to represent its significance in a way that will reconfer value.

      • 2010, Lorenz B. Puntel, Structure and Being: A Theoretical Framework for a Systematic Philosophy, →ISBN:

        Second, it opposes the fragmentary character of the understanding and of the treatment of philosophical issues characteristic of the majority of analytic philosophers in that it strives to reconfer upon philosophy its traditional systematic status.

   2. To consult or deliberate again.
      • 1963, Minnesota State Legislature, Journal of the House of Representatives:

        Mr. Cina moved that the House refuse to adopt the conference committee report on S.F. No. 196, that the present House conference committee be continued, and that the House conference committee be instructed to reinsert the House language in Sec. 8, Subd. 2, relating to wage earners who earn $1500 or more in less than 20 weeks and reinsert the House language in Sec. 13, Subd. 1, clause (1), relating to disqualifications for voluntary quits, that the Senate be advised of the House action and be requested to reconfer on the differences between the Senate and the House On S. F. No. 196.

      • 1967, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, Hearings, page 215:

        I would like to say that we have been conferring, and plede today is that I will go back and reconfer.

      • 1977, Jules Robert Benjamin, The United States and Cuba, →ISBN:

        Sanguily protested that the army wanted an impartial civilian to replace Machado, but finally agreed to reconfer with the officer corps on the subject.

Anagrams

• confrere, confrère, enforcer