The phrase "confer a blessing" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used when someone gives a blessing or good wishes to another person. For example, "The pastor conferred a blessing on the bride and groom at their wedding."
(She was there to reprise a superfluous keyboard part and, more significantly, to confer a sisterly blessing).
In the weeks following, I was asked to preside at Jewish weddings, interfaith weddings, to consult with a new Jewish think tank, and to confer a Jewish blessing at our community's MLK interfaith ceremony.
To be born a Cecil (pronounced "Cissil" by the socially ungauche) confers a special blessing.
They then conferred a Sufi blessing upon each other, and Ashleigh Tanner, the bridegroom's 19-year-old daughter, gave a Bible reading chosen by Vera Brown, his 93-year-old grandmother.
Pinchas is filled with rage, and the fact that he believes it to be sacred doesn't make it any less problematic to God (often rage-filled Himself), who confers a corrective blessing which would diminish it.
Pope Benedict XVI was praying for the mourning families and had conferred a special blessing on all affected, the Vatican statement said, and he wished to express his "profound sympathy" to the injured and their families and his sense of "closeness" to the rescue workers.
Domestic partnerships confer a second-class status.
Meetings also confer a sense of control.
Beauty can confer a sense of trust.
His accession to the Norton chair at Harvard, whose previous occupants include Eliot, Stravinsky and Borges, confers an ultimate cathedratic blessing, especially gratifying to one who has toiled for many years under some obscure, perhaps imagined, condescension, meted out early on.
