Definition of Conferred

Conferred Quotations

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
John Lennon

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
David Lloyd George

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
Charles Babbage

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike

We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.
Robert Toombs

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
Caleb Cushing