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▪ I. † reˈanswer, n. Obs.—1
[Cf. next.]
Reply.
1599Sir Clyom. in Peele's Wks. (Rtldg.) 531/1 Who art thou, or what's thy name? re-answer quickly make.
▪ II. † reˈanswer, v.1 Obs.
[f. re- + answer v., prob. after respond, reply, rejoin, etc.]
1. trans.
a. To answer; to give answer to.
1523More in State Papers (1830) I. 143 Which [commendation] I can never otherwise reanswere than with my pore prayoure. c1594Capt. Wyatt R. Dudley's Voy. W. Ind. (Hakl. Soc.) 3 Our great ordenance..was re-answeared by the Queenes ordenance out of Callshott Castle. 1599Sir Clyom. in Peele's Wks. (Rtldg.) 511/1 In case you will re⁓answer me my question to absolve.
b. To meet, be sufficient for, or equivalent to.
1598Barret Theor. Warres iv. i. 97 If..your enemy [be] very strong in horse, and you few horse or none to re⁓answere them. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. vi. 136 The losses we haue borne..which in weight to re-answer, his pettinesse would bow vnder. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 513 Rewards of their abstinence and vertues, as also to re⁓answer their benefactors confidence.
c. To make good. rare—1.
1591Greene 2nd Pt. Conny-Catching Wks. (Grosart) X. 109 If a purse bee drawen..they take vp all the Nips and Foists abovte the cittie, and let them lie there [in Newgate] while the money be reanswered vnto the party.
2. intr. To make an answer or return.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 21 b, He commeth to vs helpyng..vs: and we reanswere to his grace.
▪ III. reˈanswer, v.2 rare.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To answer a second time.
1608Hieron Defence ii. 179 Lyraes distinction betwene the facte and the zeale is before answered, and by and by shal be reanswered. 1933J. Clayton Sir Thomas More v. 87 From the time of S. Anselm..the most profound and subtle philosophical questions had been raised and answered, and again reconsidered and reanswered. 1977Word 1972 XXVIII. 78, I am grateful for her patience in answering and reanswering countless questions and either producing or approving almost all the sentences included in this article. |