He had conferred with a number of other preachers before Conference came on, and formed a considerable party, and the clamor for my condemnation was both loud and somewhat general.
He rose alike above the selfish passions and the inveterate prejudices of his age, and conferred on the injured sex the blessings of freedom and dignity, of purity and blessedness.
Presents were sent to the chieftain of the tribe, he was helped against his enemies, and he was given the status of a feudatory of the Sung; in 988 the family name of the Sung, Chao, was conferred on him.
A high title wasconferred on the tribal leader of the Mongols, in the hope of gaining his favour.
University powers conferred by Act of the Legislature of Nova Scotia, 1866.
The second great principle, which has conferred immortal glory on Copernicus, assigned to the earth its true position in the universe.
Mr. Hall consulted his classical friends as to the designation to be conferred on the two satellites.
Those fiefs were conferred upon me by our late lord, Duke Pier Luigi," he replied.
And presently we heard that Mondolfo had been conferred by Farnese upon his good and loyal servant and captain, the Lord Cosimo d'Anguissola, subject to a tax of a thousand ducats yearly!
Now that Thou hast conferred upon me so great an honor, withhold not from me the things Thou hast ordained for Thy chosen ones.
The recipient of this favor noted down the talismanic words in his pocket-book, and Mr. Jonas, conscious of having conferred a benefit on his race, became more odious to it than ever.
He informed me he had not the slightest ill-feeling personally in the matter; in fact, he went so far as to say that if I had only conferred with him before launching my scheme he would have gladly advised me of the futility of it.
He further told me that I had been appointed drill instructor in his place, and that the rank of acting-corporal had been conferred on me.
Neither Hamilton nor Dallas found it necessary or advisable to retire into the wilderness, and political distinctions were conferred upon them quite as rapidly as was for their advantage.
We conferred often on the subject, and came to the same conclusions.
Notwithstanding this mark of apostolic favor conferred on the "venerabilis vir dominus Johannes Gallatinus, civis Gebennensis" by a formal act dated at Salerno in 1522, Jean Gallatin was not an obedient son of the Church.
But without heeding this the Assembly conferred upon the Supreme Court the power of injunction.
Chancery powers may be conferred on the supreme court; but no other court exercising chancery powers shall be established in this State, except as is now provided by law.
Chancery powers may beconferred on the supreme court, but on no other court to any greater extent than is now provided by law.
Full power of protection was conferred upon a court of justices to be held in Narragansett.
Equally irritating to those who had no share in it was the right conferred by primogeniture.
They deferred the question as to the honours which should be conferred upon Francis, until they had consulted Polani.
Francis was immensely gratified, when he heard from the merchant of the honour to beconferred upon him.
Because of God's authority dictating it as a law, his will revealed conferred obligation.
Viewed as accumulating and being transmitted through the voluntary agency of man, it is manifestly mighty; contemplated as conferred by the authority of God, it appears to be infinite.
It could not have been proclaimed to him as the federal head of others, had it not conferred obligation upon him as a moral agent, responsible for his own actions.
The obligations that bind it, may have been conferredages before; but when he makes his profession, even then, by his own act, they descend upon him.
It is on a covenant, the conditions of which were fully satisfied by One infinitely qualified for his work, that they are invited to take hold, and the powers conferred upon them correspond to the exercise.
It is Moore's great distinction that he gave real pleasure to all sorts and conditions of men; and they showed it by treating him as if he had conferred obligations on them.
O, what transcendent dignity and honor are conferred on the faithful at the hour of death.
If this course was persistently pursued by all Christian workers how manifold would be the blessings conferred on our labors.
We form a very wrong estimate of religion if we think that God's gifts of grace are invariably conferredupon the prosperous.
His most Christian Majesty conferred a bounty of thirty livres on every ton of goods imported to France, a kind of protection similar to that still extended by the French government to the Newfoundland fisheries.
By the Union, constitutions very distantly related to the British constitution were conferred upon the two provinces.
Ladies were proud of the celebrity conferred upon their charms by the songs of the troubadours, and they themselves often professed the "Gay Science," as poetry was called.
Here he is said to have invoked the genius of the epic muse, and tradition has conferred on this retreat the name of the Grotto of Camoëns.
Portugal was long considered only as an integral part of Spain; its inhabitants called themselves Spaniards, and conferred on their neighbors the distinctive appellation of Castilians.
He was chosen President of the Spiritual College at Madrid, and the pope conferred upon him high marks of distinction, not only for his poetical talents, but for his enthusiastic zeal for the interests of religion.
The learned and celebrated, from all countries, visited him, and he was loaded with gifts and honors, in return for the honor which he conferred upon his native land.
The Prince of Wales continued to oppose his father all the time, but that did not prevent his son, Prince George, from having the Order of the Garter conferred on him.
An address was then presented by the corporation to the royal visitors, acknowledging the distinction they had conferred on the town, and requesting the duchess to name the pier.
The title of Prince Consort was conferred by the queen on her husband this year; she also distributed "the Victoria Cross," for the first time.
After the banquet, which was a splendid affair in every respect, the title of baronet was conferred on the Lord Mayor, and two sheriffs were knighted.
Oxford conferredon him the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, and he was elected president of the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh.
Whatever splendor of ornament may have been conferred upon the theatre by the Aldrovandini family, so greatly devoted to it; that of the Galli, in the present age, sprung from Gio.
Dalmatio, an instructor of youth, was not by profession a painter of history; and, as portrait painters never particularly promoted the progress of any school, so on his part he conferred little benefit on his own.
He was the founder of a family that conferred honour on the art.
He thusconferred fresh lustre on both palaces and churches; and next proceeding to the theatres, he exhibited novel spectacles in them.
In other apartments he exhibited the Glory of the Blessed, which conferred on that place the name it still bears, of the Palace of Paradise.
In his court Titian painted, and Ariosto conferred with him upon the subjects of his pencil, as we learn from Ridolfi in the life of Titian himself.
He was, however, jealous of the honours conferred on others; for he expected, no doubt, that the whole of the plumage of the sacred geese would have been feathers in his cap in the eyes of his countrymen.
Fabius Maximus was chosen, and the mastership of the horse was conferred on M.
In addition to the miserable shelter which conferred upon them the few joys of home and the associations of their life-struggles, there were many links to the large outer world.
Then, for the first time, palms were conferred on the victors according to a custom introduced from Greece.
Otacilius is married to my sister's daughter, and has children by her, but the favours you have conferred upon me and my ancestors, are not such as that I should prefer private relationship to the public weal.
After this, certain persons, covering themselves with nets in a fishing smack, were in this way conveyed round to the Roman camp, and conferred with the fugitives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conferred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
