cf.

abbr.

Latin confer (compare)

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cf.

abbreviation for

compare

[Latin: confer]

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cf. - compare (used in texts to point the reader to another location in the text)

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cf.

abbr (= compare) → cf., voir

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cf.

abbr =compare → cf, cfr

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References in classic literature

I have therefore with some diffidence ventured to depart from the received translation of [Greek] (cf. Alcaeus frag.

{171} The interpretation of lines 126-143 is most dubious, and at best we are in a region of melodrama: cf., however, i.425, etc.

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Cf. "The History of Henry VII," by Lord Bacon: "King Charles had conquered the realm of Naples, and lost it again, in a kind of a felicity of a dream.

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Glaucon is the impetuous youth who can "just never have enough of fechting" (cf. the character of him in Xen.

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(7) Aidos, as a quality, is that feeling of reverence or shame which restrains men from wrong: Nemesis is the feeling of righteous indignation aroused especially by the sight of the wicked in undeserved prosperity (cf. "Psalms", lxxii.

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Jerome commends him for a plain style that allowed his teachings to reach the common man; cf. P.

Eastern Fathers of the Church

Recent discoveries stress the importance of early treatment for all children with CF.

Cystic fibrosis no longer a fatal disease. (EP Guide To Every Body Part 8)

A typical AF-DE pattern, when observed before 22 weeks, would exclude severe CF.

Amniotic fluid digestive enzyme analysis is useful for identifying CFTR gene mutations of unclear significance

17; cf. the several references in Acts to Christianity as the "Way," e.g., 9:2).

Seventh Sunday of Easter: May 20, 2007

The entire chapter 13 entitled, "Lady Madonna," presents Madonna Ciccone as a Catholic housewife, but she is not, because Susan Brown, the officiating minister, is not a Roman Catholic priest (cf. p.

Madonna

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