Containing or making answer; answering. Johnson.
The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service.
A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain. Which, if should repeat again, would turn my answers into responsories, and beget another liturgy. Milton.
An antiphonary; a response book.
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