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ut Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. Boyle. We might put him off with this answer. Bentley.

The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

ase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent; size. Hence, in specific uses:

A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved. I shall conclude with proposing only some queries, in order to a . . . search to be made by others. Sir I. Newton.

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est or, What is it " The degree of nullity and quiddity." Bacon. The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. De Quincey.

ishment. For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Jer. xv. 15. Why bear you these rebukes and answer not Shak.

To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant. Blackstone.

The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

or penalty. "Parfay," sayst thou, "sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer. To reckon for, to answer for; to pay the account for. "If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day." Bp. Sanderson. -- To reckon on or upon, to count or depend on. -- To reckon with, to settle accounts or claims with; --…

Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply; as, redditive words.

To report; to deliver the answer of. [R.] "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.

An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions. "Referendaries, or masters of request." Harmar.

To answer to a reply.

An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.

The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability. Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore. Poe.

Not answering as a remedy; ineffectual. [Obs.] Forced to forego the attempt remediless. Spenser.

An answer; a reply. Shak. Withouten any repplicacioun. Chaucer.

To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer. O man, who art thou that repliest against God Rom. ix. 20.

To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress. There is no man that may reporten all. Chaucer.