defer

To delay or postpone.

We're going to defer the decision until we have all the facts.

Deferre the ſpoile of the Citie vntill night:

To delay or postpone.

After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).

To delay, to wait.

God […] will not long defer / To vindicate the glory of his name

To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.

Hereupon the commissioners […] deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland.

"Defer/Defer/To the Lord High Executioner."

To render, to offer.

worship deferred to the Virgin