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Answer

Answer (answer)
v. t.((?))
An"swer
[imp. *** p. p. Answered (&?]); p. pr. *** vb. n. Answering.] [OE. andswerien, AS. andswerian, andswarian, to answer, fr. andswaru, n., answer. See Answer,
  1. To speak in defense against] to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
  2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.

    She answers him as if she knew his mind.
    Shak.

    So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . .
    And him thus answered soon his bold compeer.
    Milton.

  3. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.

    No man was able to answer him a word.
    Matt. xxii. 46.

    These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.
    Milton.

    The reasoning was not and could not be answered.
    Macaulay.

  4. To be or act in return or response to.
    Hence: (a)

Answer

Answer (answer)
v. i.
An"swer
  1. To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.

    There was no voice, nor any that answered.
    1 Kings xviii. 26.

  2. To make a satisfactory response or return.
    Hen
  3. To be or act in return.
    Hence: (a)

Answer

Answer (answer)
n.
An"swer
  1. A reply to a change; a defense.

    At my first answer no man stood with me.
    2 Tim. iv. 16.

  2. Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.

    A soft answer turneth away wrath.
    Prov. xv. 1.

    I called him, but he gave me no answer.
    Cant. v. 6.

  3. Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.

    Great the slaughter is
    Here made by the Roman; great the answer be
    Britons must take.
    Shak.

  4. A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
  5. A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
    Bouvier.

    Syn. -- Reply; rejoinder; response. See Reply.














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