reconfer

verb

1. To confer again.

   “The bank comes forward, and asks us to reconfer on it these extravagant, alarming, and, I fear, ultimately ruinous privileges;”

   “The main object and principle of the settlement was to reconfer proprietary rights on persons possessing the strongest prescriptive title, and to impose a moderate assessment.”

   “Pierre Bourdieu has described how the late holders of a title that confers less status than it once did – less than it once promised – are forced to represent its significance in a way that will reconfer value.”

   “Second, it opposes the fragmentary character of the understanding and of the treatment of philosophical issues characteristic of the majority of analytic philosophers in that it strives to reconfer upon philosophy its traditional systematic status.”

2. To confer again.

   “I would like to say that we have been conferring, and plede today is that I will go back and reconfer.”

   “Sanguily protested that the army wanted an impartial civilian to replace Machado, but finally agreed to reconfer with the officer corps on the subject.”