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correspondent, a. and n.|kɒrɪˈspɒndənt|
Also 5–6 corespondent(e.
[f. med.L. correspondēnt-em, pr. pple. of correspondēre: see correspond and -ent. In F. correspondant, 14th c.]
A. adj. (In this use corresponding is now more frequent.)
1. Answering to something else in the way of mutual adaptation or fitness; in agreement or harmony, congruous, accordant with; consonant, conformable, suitable, agreeable to.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) D vj, Not correspondent to the good gouernaunce of the Empyre. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 248 Can God be pleased to do anythyng that is not most correspondent to reason? 1612Dekker Lond. Triumph. Wks. 1873 III. 242 His roabe and mantle..are correspondent to the quality of his person. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §41. 51 One entire system of Philosophy correspondent with, and agreeable to, the true and real world. 1798T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 246 An order of things more correspondent to the sentiments of our constituents. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 103 Nothing could..have fallen out more correspondent with my wishes. 1866J. G. Murphy Comm. Exodus xiv. 19 A series of..movements in the narrative correspondent with the native grandeur of the occasion.
†b. Characterized by agreement or harmony of parts; harmonious, congruous. Obs. rare.
1555Eden Decades 206 Shewing as it were a fayre woorke and correspondent picture. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xxxv. 140 The workmanship thereof is so correspondent, that all the perfection..from a good workman is observed in it.
2. Answering to or agreeing with something else in the way of likeness of relation or analogy; analogous, or having an analogous relation to.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 219 An horse man made of brasse corespondente to the ymage of that prouince [eques quidam æneus concordans mobiliter motui illius imaginis]. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 1007 The pope hath no peere; Emperowre is nex hym euery where; Kynge corespondent. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 52 The peticyon of the Pater noster corespondent to this braunche or gyfte is..wryten in the margent. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 510 Squirrels which have such lines of white and black, with correspondent lines in the tail. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. iv. 13 To these Uses [of speech] there are also foure correspondent Abuses. 1739Hume Human Nature i. i, I venture to affirm..that every simple impression [has] a correspondent idea. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps v. §8. 144 Sculptural sketching, exactly correspondent to a painter's light execution of a background. 1875Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims ix. 220 The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon which does not express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience.
b. Agreeing (with each other) in relative position.
1570Billingsley Euclid i. iv. 13 Two triangles, of which two sides of th' one be equal to two sides of the other, eche side to his correspondent side. a1700Dryden Ovid's Met. i. 53 As five zones th' ætherial regions bind, Five correspondent are to earth assigned. 1842Sir W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. I. 164/1 Two points anatomically correspondent, when on opposite sides of the body they severally hold the same relation to the centre.
c. Agreeing (with something else) in relative magnitude or value; proportional.
a1656Ussher Power Princes i. xxxi. (1683) 56 What correspondent thing can he repay to God, who by his gift enjoyeth an Empire? 1800Wellington in Owen Desp. 650 The..price has been..increased without any correspondent improvement in the quality of the goods.
†3. Responsive; compliant, submissive. Obs.
1610Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 297, I will be correspondent to command. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. iii. (1739) 4 It [Britain] continued correspondent to the Romans.
†4. Answerable, responsible. Obs.
1612Chapman Widowes T. v, We are not correspondent for any but our own places. c1658Osborn Wks. II. 37, I am no ways correspondent for the praise or blame due to any verses.
†5. Used advb. Obs. (Cf. according.)
1684R. Waller Nat. Exper. 1 The Mercurial Standard..rises or falls..correspondent to the various Temperaments which the Air receives.
B. n.
1. A thing that corresponds or answers to something else; a correlative.
1650Jer. Taylor Holy Living (1727) 276 Eggs are to birds as a relative to its correspondent. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Gray, The first line was dearly bought by the admission of its wretched correspondent. 1875Whitney Life Lang. 56 The nearest correspondent in quality to the short e of ‘met’.
†2. A person who holds communication with another, esp. secret communication; a confederate, accomplice. Obs.
1639Fuller Holy War iii. viii, Their faithful correspondent, who advised them by his letters, could no where be found. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton x. (1840) 172 His [a mutineer's] correspondent in the other ship..began the work. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 11 June, He [a highwayman] had always acted..without partner or correspondent.
3. A person who has regular business relations with another (esp. in a distant place).
a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xvi. (1704) III. 601 To take Bills of Exchange from Amsterdam upon their Correspondents in London. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 33 A Man may..meet with a Correspondent in Piety with whom he may Traffique..in the Affairs of Heaven. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 171, I..had gotten..a correspondent in London, with whom I traded. 1827O. W. Roberts Centr. Amer. 226 This worthy man also gave me a letter to his correspondent at Granada.
4. One who communicates with another by letters. (The ordinary modern use.)
c1630Sir H. Wotton The Parellel in Reliq. Wotton., The Secretary..knew there were some Letters in it from his Correspondents. 1717Lady M. W. Montague Lett. C'tess Mar 18 Apr., I wrote to..all my..correspondents by the last ship. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Spir. Laws Wks. (Bohn) I. 70, I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents. 1872E. Peacock Mabel Heron I. viii. 127 The lady was a voluminous correspondent.
b. One who contributes letters to a newspaper or journal; spec. one employed by a journal to contribute news and other material to its columns from some particular place.
1711Steele Spect. No. 22 ⁋1 The Letters of my Correspondents will represent this Affair in a more lively Manner. 1798Anti-Jacobin x, For the two following Poems we are indebted to unknown Correspondents. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xvi, ‘He is a man of fine moral elements’..said the war correspondent. 1873Mrs. Alexander Wooing o't xii, ‘The triumph of decorative art,’ as ‘our own correspondent’ would call it.
5. nonce-use. An organism in vital communication with its environment: see correspond 4 d.
1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. vii. (1890) 214 Some change might occur in it [the environment] which the correspondents had no adaptive changes to meet. |