*respond*

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Corresponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Corresponding. ] [ Pref. cor- + respond: cf. f. correspondre. ] 1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. [ 1913 Webster ]

None of them [ the forms of Sidney's sonnets ] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [ Atterbury ] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. Macaulay.

Syn. -- To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. correspondance. ] 1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The letters which pass between correspondents. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Correspondencies Same as Correspondence, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. correspondant. ] Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will be correspondent to command. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Carrying on intercourse by letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a corresponding manner; conformably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incongruous. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Lack of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not corresponding; disagreeing. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Responded; p. pr. & vb. n. Responding. ] [ OF. respondre, F. répondre, fr. L. respondere, responsum; pref. re- re- + spondere to promise. See Sponsor. ] 1. To say something in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. [ 1913 Webster ]

A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe. Buckminster. [ 1913 Webster ]

To every theme responds thy various lay. Broome. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To answer; reply; rejoin. See Reply. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To answer; to reply. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To suit or accord with; to correspond to. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For his great deeds respond his speeches great. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An answer; a response. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch. Oxf. Gloss. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an answering. A. Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

The angelical soft trembling voice made
To the instruments divine respondence meet. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. respondens, p. pr. of respondere. ] Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. répondant. ] One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant. Specifically: (a) (Law) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant. (b) One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Respondence. ] (Commercial Law) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]