REFER Copy link • REFERTransitively, To direct to another for information, etc., aliquem or aliquid delegare ad aliquem or ad aliquid (e.g., rem ad senatum; aliquem ad volumen): relegare ad aliquem (e.g., ad auotores; ☞ but not ablegare ad aliquem or ad aliquid, in this sense): revocare aliquem ad aliquem or ad aliquid (e.g., aliquem ad Graecorum poetarum fabulas; aliquem ad philosophos): rejicere or remittere aliquid ad aliquem (e.g., causam ad senatum): to refer anything to (some deliberative body), referre rem or de re ad (e.g., ad senatum. But ☞ ad populum ferre aliquid, not referre, because the people were not called upon to advise, etc.; Vid: Ruhnken, ad Muret., Op., 4, 9. Hence also, referre ad concilium, to a council of war): to refer a matter to arbitration, rem alicujus arbitrio permittere. To reduce to, ascribe to, referre ad aliquid. trahere in or ad aliquid: to refer anything to something else, aliquid ad aliam rem transferre: to refer everything to sensual enjoyment, omnia ad voluptatem corporis referre. Intransitively, To regard, have relation to, spectare ad aliquid; referri, referendum esse ad aliquid; attinere ad (☞ not pertiaere ad). Vid: REGARD.