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To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [R.] Money answereth all things. Eccles. x. 19.

Equal; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic] Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton.

ntimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, antimonic acid.

d from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apoplectic songs or hymns.

atural desire; a craving; an eager appetite. They had a strong appetency for reading. Merivale.

A native of Argos. Often used as a generic term, equivalent to Grecian or Greek.

o arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the host. Cowper. No suspicion was aroused. Merivale.

arsenic; -- said of those compounds of arsenic in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, arsenic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic, when having an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, arsenious acid.

Even; not odd; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals the valence of which is divisible by two without a remainder.

A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow.

te their nourishment. Sir I. Newton. His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. Merivale.

To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime. The murderer fell, and blood atoned for blood. Pope. The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure. Junius.

As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.

A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation…

Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See Valence.

Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man…

The office of an augur. Merivale.

rived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its higher valence; as, auric oxide; auric chloride.