differre

The language is peculiar to himself when he uses "differre" for

Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

Hugh, and the death of his brother, and what great confidence he reposed in them concerning these warres: and that nowe therefore they being departed and dead, he must of necessity differre the besieging of Sagitta, and for this time dismisse the armie assembled.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

_Semper nocuit differre paratis_ is a sound axiom, but the really efficacious man will also be sure to know when he is _not_ ready, and be firm against all persuasion and reproach till he is.

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

Princes to differre the bestowing of their great liberalities as

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

So also the Compounds -- afferō afferre attulī allātus _bring toward_ auferō auferre abstulī ablātus _take away_ cōnferō cōnferre contulī collātus _compare_ differō differre distulī dīlātus _put off_ efferō efferre extulī ēlātus _carry out_ īnferō īnferre intulī illātus _bring against_ offerō offerre obtulī oblātus _present_ referō referre rettulī relātus _bring back_

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

_Semper nocuit differre paratis_, is a sound axiom, but the really efficacious man will also be sure to know when he is not ready, and be firm against all persuasion and reproach till he is.

Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings Various 1921

Francesca (v. 790): sic fata relictis exsiluit stratis amens tormentaque nulla vult differre mora. non maesti pectora Magni sustinet amplexu dulci, non colla tenere, extremusque perit tam longi fructus amoris, praecipitantque sues luctus, neuterque recedens sustinuit dixisse 'vale', vitamque per omnem nulla fuit tarn maesta dies; nam cetera damna durata iam mente malis firmaque tulerunt.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Semper nocuit differre paratis is a sound axiom, but the really efficacious man will also be sure to know when he is not ready, and be firm against all persuasion and reproach till he is.

Abraham Lincoln, 1864-1865 1909

"Consequens igitur est ut claritudinem superioribus tribus nihil differre fateamur."

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

Hoc interim constet quod inter naturam personamque differre praediximus, quoniam natura est cuiuslibet substantiae specificata proprietas, persona uero rationabilis naturae indiuidua substantia.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908