DEFER Copy link • DEFERTo put off to another time, differre; proferre; conferre (with the distinction, that by differre the time of putting off may either be fixed or not; whereas proferre and conferre, for which transferre seldom stands, intimate that the time of putting off is fixed): procrastinare; differre et procrastinare (to put off to the following day, especially in a dilatory manner): producere: prolatare (e.g., comitia; diem): rejicere in or ad (with accusative; to put off what should be done now; also reservare): protrudere (to thrust off; e.g., comitia in mensem Januarium): to defer from one day to another, diem ex die ducere or prolatare; anything from day to day, rem in dies proferre ac procrastinare (Cic.): to defer the payment of a debt, solutionem nominis sustinere (Cic.): to defer it to another time, in aliud tempus differre, proferre or rejicere; to the next day, aliquid differre in crastinum; aliquid in posterum diem conferre: to defer for some days, aliquot dies proferre or promovere; a wedding, prodere nuptiis aliquot dies (Terentianus): to defer passing sentence on a person accused (till the third day after his trial, or later), comperendinare reum: to defer the sentence (in order to afford the accused ampler means of defence), ampliare reum. To defer to or pay deference to, alicui obsequi or morigerari; alicui or alicujus voluntati morem gerere: alicui obtemperare.