CORRESPONDENT

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. I will be correspondent to command. Shak.

2.
n.

One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macualay.

3.
n.

One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.

4.
n.

One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.