Referend
Referend
The vehicle or instrument of an act of reference. Thus a percept functions as a referend in relation to the perceptual object (the referent). There still exists some confusion in the terminology of reference, and the term referend is used by some authors to denote the “object” instead of the “instrument” of the referential act. This usage, though it has some etymological justification does not seem likely to prevail. See Reference, Referent. — L.W.