CON'FERENCE, n. See Confer.
1. The act of conversing on a serious subject a discoursing between two or more, for the purpose of instruction, consultation, or deliberation formal discourse oral discussion.
For they who seemed to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me. Galatians 2 .
The ministers had a conference at Ratisbon.
2. A meeting for consultation, discussion or instruction.
3. Comparison examination of things by comparison.
The mutual conference of observations. The conference of different passages of scripture.
This sense is, I believe, now obsolete.