Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.
June Singer

Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
Erich Fromm

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.
Terry Prachett

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
Xun Zi

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
Dmitri Mendeleev

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Erich Fromm

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
Richard Owen

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.
Christy Turlington

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Mason Cooley

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
Paul Ricoeur

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.
Charles Vest

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.
Tim LaHaye