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CONFERENCE , a bringing together (See also:

Lat. conferre) for the purpose of discussion, particularly a See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting of members of one or more See also:

SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies, of representatives of legislative or other bodies, or of different states. Such are the meetings between members of the upper and See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

chambers of the See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament, or of the See also:

UNITED

United States See also:

CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

congress, to adjust matters of difference, and the assemblies of the See also:

PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime ministers of the various British colonies, held at stated intervals to consult with the imperial See also:

government. The See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Colonial Conference was changed to that of Imperial Conference in 1907, but the proposal to See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change Conference, to See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

Council was dropped; it was See also:

FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt that the administrative functions usually connoted by the word " council" made that title less suitable to an See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly with purely deliberative and consultative See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers, which were more fitly expressed by " conference." In See also:

DIPLOMACY (Fr. diplomatic)

diplomacy the word " conference " is used of a meeting of the representatives of states of greater or less importance for the purpose of settling particular points, as distinguished from a " congress," which is properly a meeting of the See also:

GREAT

great powers for the See also:

settlement of questions of See also:

general See also:

INTEREST

interest. In practice, however, the distinction is not consistently maintained. The meetings preliminary to a congress and the sessions of the congress itself are also styled " conferences " (see CONGRESS). The word is also applied to the See also:

ANNUAL

annual assemblies for transacting See also:

church business in the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain and to various similar assemblies in the Methodist Episcopal Church of See also:

AMERICA

America (see See also:

METHODISM

METHODISM).

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