Definition of "cf" []

• Compare, compare to (abbreviation)
• See also (abbreviation)
• Confer (in the obsolete sense of compare) particularly in Webster's 1913. (abbreviation)

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• "Yet this earl never defifted to detend the title cf the emprefs and her fon Henry againft king Stephen, and to dilhirb him by all tlie means he could, refolving upon that purpofc of his heart, never to fcrve other king than duke Henry -, fay - ing often."
• "'office during the term cf four years, and together with the Vice-Prefident, chofea for the fame term, be elefted a follows:"
• ""Nigger" has been reappropriated by some young black people as a positive/neutral term cf "queer" in some gay circles."