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referreth

referreth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of refer.

Meaning of refer

Verb

refer (third-person singular simple present refers, present participle referring, simple past and past participle referred)

  1. (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something).
    • The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
  2. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
    • He referred the matter to the principal.
    Synonyms:
    send
  3. (transitive) 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.
    • He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
  4. (intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something).
    • To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.
  5. (intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
    • The recipe referred to several unusual ingredients.
  6. To be referential to another element in a sentence.

See all 12 meanings of refer

Origin of referreth

refer + -eth

Questions about referreth

What is referreth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Referreth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of refer.

Words near referreth in the dictionary

  1. referred someone to the reply given in Arkell v Pressdram
  2. referrer
  3. referrer spam
  4. referrers
  5. referrest
  6. referreth
  7. referrible
  8. referrin'
  9. referring
  10. referring someone to the reply given in Arkell v Pressdram
  11. referrings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: referreth (page history and authors); refer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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