CON'FERENCE, noun [See Confer.] 1. The act of conversing on a serious subject; a discoursing between two or more, for the purpose of instruction, consultation, or deliberation; formal discourse; oral discussion. For they who seemed to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me. Galatians 2:6. The ministers had a conference at Ratisbon. 2. A meeting for consultation, discussion or instruction. 3. Comparison; examination of things by comparison. The mutual conference of observations. The conference of different passages of scripture. [This sense is, I believe, now obsolete.]
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