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sposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding. Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. Bacon.

Ability to answer in payment; means of paying.

resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal. [Obs. or R.] Locke.

The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall.

f or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.

f returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis. You made my liberty your late request: Is no return due from a grateful breast Dryden.

A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person. Brande &C.

y, but is permitted to discharge all his obligations to his feudal lord or superior by a payment of rent in money or kind and without rendering any personal services.

To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; - - with on.

The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege to dig. Spenser. Families raised upon the ruins of churches, and enriched with the sp…

Settlement of a claim, due, or demand; payment; indemnification; adequate compensation. We shall make full satisfaction. Shak.

To make payment or atonement; to atone. Milton.

ive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles. Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double, Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble Shak. It is said, or They say, it is commonly reported; it is rumored; people assert or maintain. -- That is to say, that is; in other words; otherwise.…

Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe. Do as much for this purpose, and thou shalt pass scot-free. Sir W. Scott. Then young Hay escaped scot-free to Holland. A. Lang.

A rover or footpad; a prowling robber. In those days of highwaymen and scourers. Macaulay.

er joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.

ed, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.

A share of the receipts of a business taken in payment for the use of a right, as a copyright or a patent.

Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment. -- n.