answerern.

Brit.

/ˈɑːnsərə/,

/ˈansərə/, U.S.

/ˈænsərər/

Forms: see answer v. and -er suffix¹

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: answer v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < answer v. + -er suffix¹.

1. A person who replies to a charge, objection, argument, or assertion.See also book answerer n. at book n. Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > person answering > in a disputation

answererc1443

responsalc1500

respondent1528

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 499 Greet disputers and bisy answerers in ful holi and sweet maters of dyuynite.

1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xv. f. lii^v Thys good answerer hath here borne hym selfe so wel.

1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise f. 75 Gif the ansuerar vnderstand not veill the hail text.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants 22 Pref. Which the answerer..clearly demonstrated.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 270 Authors who subsist wholly by the criticizing or commenting Practice upon others..distinguish'd by the Title of Answerers.

1771 H. Walpole Let. 11 June in Corr. (1937) I. 219 As I doubt my own writings will soon be forgotten, I need not fear that those of my answerers will be remembered.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. ii. 151 The Defensio..did not want answerers in England.

1905 Biblical World 26 44 He was a reconciler, a remover of difficulties, an answerer of objections.

1966 M. Levine Early Elizabethan Succession Question ii. vii. 102 This time the answerer's points are worth considering.

2007 A. Shell Oral Culture & Catholicism in Early Mod. Eng. iii. 103 Transparently alluding to himself as the answerer of Allen's Articles, Rhodes assumes a continuum between controversies conducted in verse, on which prose polemic does not impinge.

2. A person who accepts a challenge, esp. in a joust or tournament. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > [noun] > challenge to > one who accepts challenge

answerer1494

society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > challenge or challenging > [noun] > person(s) accepting challenge

answerer1494

all comers1614

1494 Acct. Creation Duke of York in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 402 And where as the partie with owt, that is to wete the right honnourable and noble lordes therlls of Suffolke and of Essex, Sir Robert Curson, John Peche, John Nevyll, John Williams, answerers to those said justes and turney hathe soo honnorably and valyantly acquited them in the same, our said souverayn lord..yeven to theym their right enteer thankes.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clvii. 435 The prise of the iustes of the aunswerers..was gyuen to the frenche kynge.

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xxiv. 129/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I One Osbert of Barnewell..called for him, who foorthwith appeared in rich armour, and answered his chalenge, so that running togither verie fiercelie, they met with such rigor, that the answerer was ouerthrowne and borne downe to the ground.

a1879 J. S. Brewer Reign Henry VIII (1884) I. xii. 354 The perron, or tree of nobility, from which the shields of the two Kings were suspended on a higher line than those of the other challengers and answerers.

1980 I. Lancashire Two Tudor Interludes 184 (note) Earlier there are dramatic entrances on ship pageant cars in the cycle plays, the Digby Mary Magdalene and some Tudor tournaments—in November 1501 the answerers entered the lists before Westminster Hall in one.

2004 E. W. Ives Life & Death Anne Boleyn i. 10 On the second day of the 1511 tilt the leading answerer, Charles Brandon, entered the lists.

a. A person who replies to a question or remark, or who answers a question paper or questionnaire. Also: a person who solves a verbal puzzle or clue.See also question answerer n. at question n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > person answering

replierc1454

respondent1528

answerer1551

repliant1594

replicant1626

responser1791

responder1825

replyist1852

1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 73 Your wise dialoge..betwene the curious questioner [and] the folishe answerer.

1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 189 Inquiries that require Learning or Skill in the Answerer.

1697 J. Locke Answer Remarks Ess. Humane Understanding in Wks. (1714) I. 431 Nor did I propose to my self, in publishing my Essay, to be an Answerer of Questions.

a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. iv. x. 333 Tell me, O answerer, was it truth, or a dream, what I related as having befallen me in Montesino's cave?

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 188 The best answerer..receives a premium of books.

1840 in J. Venn Biogr. Hist. Gonville & Caius College (1901) III. 249 One Wortley exhibition (£20 for one year) should be given to the best answerer in the Examination in the Moral Philosophy.

1879 St. Nicholas July 631 Will every answerer of puzzles please mention, when sending the solutions, what will be his or her age next birthday?

1918 N. Amer. Rev. May 753 A large part of our questionnaires consisted in queries attempting to classify the answerers themselves.

1967 G. Walsh & F. Lehnert tr. A. Schütz Phenomenology Social World (1972) iv. 161 The orientation of the answerer..reflects that of the questioner.

2010 in M. Reichert & R. Hawley Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys i. iii. 37 Those who could not spell the words properly could not put the crossword together properly, and those who didn't understand the context also couldn't make it work—this was the same for both the maker of the crossword and the answerer.

b. A person who answers back. In later use only more fully answerer-back.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > regarded as impertinent > one who gives

answerera1555

a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) ii. f. 13^v Seruauntes..shal not be murmurers, nor frowarde answerers.

a1602 W. Perkins Godlie & Learned Expos. Epist. Iude (1606) 99/1 Let inferiours..learne obedience, and silent subiection vnto superiours; the seruant or subiect must not be a gainsaier, nay not an answerer againe.

1883 O. Frankfurter Handbk. Pali (1999) 159/2 ‘Mukh jornu’—‘To answer back.’ ‘Mukh jorne’—‘An answerer back.’

1945 Bell Aug. 445 Right Again Barnum might be satisfactory if staged like a White Minstrel Show with Back-Chatterer in one corner and Answerer-Back in the other.

1978 New Woman Mar. 78/3 Look for eye contact. Be a looker and a watcher. Then be a talker and a listener and an answerer-back.

2000 B. Stimpson tr. P. Valéry Ego in Cahiers/Notebooks I. 121 Curriculum vitae... the scatterbrain... the weakling... the blusher... the answerer-back... the deep one.

†4. A person responsible for something; spec. an official of the Augmentation Court responsible for revenue. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > responsibility > [noun] > fact of being responsible, answerable, or liable > one who is answerable or liable

accountant1449

accounter1534

answererc1613

c1613 (?c1538) in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 234 One farme hold..which..I did speake to the Ansurer for the use of the said children.

1826 Wilhemina iii. iii. 36 In the struggle, when he thinks it not, shall fall the wretch, and I will be the answerer for it.

1850 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (ed. 2) I. 66/2 Ansurer, the answerer; the person who answered to the Court of Augmentation for the rents and profits.

a. A person who takes action in response to an appeal, prayer, summons, call, knock on a door, telephone ring, etc.

ΚΠ

1642 J. Grant Lords Prayer Enhanced in Gods Deliv. Man by Prayer sig. E We have our gratious enjoyment to betake our selves in prayer unto thee, whose title is the hearer and answerer of prayers.

1654 D. Dickson Brief Explic. Last 50 Psalmes 307 When they are looked back upon in the clear light of accomplished deliverance, the least degrees of delivery and secret supporting of the man under trouble; will appear clearly to be answerers of prayer.

1726 A. Gavin Master-key to Popery (1812) iv. 207 The answerer is with good reason afraid of making any delay in opening the street door.

1799 P. Greig Let. 6 May in Missionary Mag. 21 Oct. 474 In the midst of all our trials, our God has been very gracious unto us, for we have truly experienced him to be the hearer and answerer of prayer.

1847 J. S. Knowles Fortescue xviii. 67/2 Herself the answerer of his summons.

1882 E. J. W. Gibb tr. ‘Iqbāli’ in Ottoman Poems 112 Eternal, Answerer in need!

1952 in A. M. Rose Union Solidarity ii. 40 Say that you are the interviewer for the union, and that you had an appointment with Mr. —— —— for this evening, and do you (the person answering the door) know anything about it. Perhaps the answerer can make an appointment for another day. If not, ask the answerer to please take a message to the respondent.

2007 E. A. Schegloff Sequence Organization in Interaction v. 89 Unlike the solicitation of recognition, self-identification (by a caller who is recognizable to the answerer of the phone) is uncommon.

b. In full telephone (also phone) answerer. = answering machine n. at answering n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > system or equipment for leaving voice messages

answerphone1917

answering machine1924

answerer1959

voicebank1978

voicemail1980

voice mailbox1980

voice messaging1981

voice box1984

1959 Economist 15 Aug. 458/2 One of the advantages claimed for the other answerers has been that calls will be shorter if messages can be recorded.

1975 Pop. Sci. Apr. 89/3 Phone answerer. What's the newest thing about this Record-A-Call phone-answering machine? The price.

1993 R. Burns Endangered Species v. 37 The fifth John Marshall had a telephone answerer that..said that John was too busy having fun to answer the phone right now.

2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June d5 (advt.) VTech 5.8 GHz Expandable Cordless Phone and Digital Answerer. Hands-free speakerphone in handset and base.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	answerer
释义	answerern. Brit. /ˈɑːnsərə/, /ˈansərə/, U.S. /ˈænsərər/ Forms: see answer v. and -er suffix¹ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: answer v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < answer v. + -er suffix¹. 1. A person who replies to a charge, objection, argument, or assertion.See also book answerer n. at book n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > person answering > in a disputation answererc1443 responsalc1500 respondent1528 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 499 Greet disputers and bisy answerers in ful holi and sweet maters of dyuynite. 1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xv. f. lii^v Thys good answerer hath here borne hym selfe so wel. 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise f. 75 Gif the ansuerar vnderstand not veill the hail text. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants 22 Pref. Which the answerer..clearly demonstrated. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 270 Authors who subsist wholly by the criticizing or commenting Practice upon others..distinguish'd by the Title of Answerers. 1771 H. Walpole Let. 11 June in Corr. (1937) I. 219 As I doubt my own writings will soon be forgotten, I need not fear that those of my answerers will be remembered. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. ii. 151 The Defensio..did not want answerers in England. 1905 Biblical World 26 44 He was a reconciler, a remover of difficulties, an answerer of objections. 1966 M. Levine Early Elizabethan Succession Question ii. vii. 102 This time the answerer's points are worth considering. 2007 A. Shell Oral Culture & Catholicism in Early Mod. Eng. iii. 103 Transparently alluding to himself as the answerer of Allen's Articles, Rhodes assumes a continuum between controversies conducted in verse, on which prose polemic does not impinge. 2. A person who accepts a challenge, esp. in a joust or tournament. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > [noun] > challenge to > one who accepts challenge answerer1494 society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > challenge or challenging > [noun] > person(s) accepting challenge answerer1494 all comers1614 1494 Acct. Creation Duke of York in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 402 And where as the partie with owt, that is to wete the right honnourable and noble lordes therlls of Suffolke and of Essex, Sir Robert Curson, John Peche, John Nevyll, John Williams, answerers to those said justes and turney hathe soo honnorably and valyantly acquited them in the same, our said souverayn lord..yeven to theym their right enteer thankes. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clvii. 435 The prise of the iustes of the aunswerers..was gyuen to the frenche kynge. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xxiv. 129/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I One Osbert of Barnewell..called for him, who foorthwith appeared in rich armour, and answered his chalenge, so that running togither verie fiercelie, they met with such rigor, that the answerer was ouerthrowne and borne downe to the ground. a1879 J. S. Brewer Reign Henry VIII (1884) I. xii. 354 The perron, or tree of nobility, from which the shields of the two Kings were suspended on a higher line than those of the other challengers and answerers. 1980 I. Lancashire Two Tudor Interludes 184 (note) Earlier there are dramatic entrances on ship pageant cars in the cycle plays, the Digby Mary Magdalene and some Tudor tournaments—in November 1501 the answerers entered the lists before Westminster Hall in one. 2004 E. W. Ives Life & Death Anne Boleyn i. 10 On the second day of the 1511 tilt the leading answerer, Charles Brandon, entered the lists. 3. a. A person who replies to a question or remark, or who answers a question paper or questionnaire. Also: a person who solves a verbal puzzle or clue.See also question answerer n. at question n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > person answering replierc1454 respondent1528 answerer1551 repliant1594 replicant1626 responser1791 responder1825 replyist1852 1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 73 Your wise dialoge..betwene the curious questioner [and] the folishe answerer. 1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 189 Inquiries that require Learning or Skill in the Answerer. 1697 J. Locke Answer Remarks Ess. Humane Understanding in Wks. (1714) I. 431 Nor did I propose to my self, in publishing my Essay, to be an Answerer of Questions. a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. iv. x. 333 Tell me, O answerer, was it truth, or a dream, what I related as having befallen me in Montesino's cave? 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 188 The best answerer..receives a premium of books. 1840 in J. Venn Biogr. Hist. Gonville & Caius College (1901) III. 249 One Wortley exhibition (£20 for one year) should be given to the best answerer in the Examination in the Moral Philosophy. 1879 St. Nicholas July 631 Will every answerer of puzzles please mention, when sending the solutions, what will be his or her age next birthday? 1918 N. Amer. Rev. May 753 A large part of our questionnaires consisted in queries attempting to classify the answerers themselves. 1967 G. Walsh & F. Lehnert tr. A. Schütz Phenomenology Social World (1972) iv. 161 The orientation of the answerer..reflects that of the questioner. 2010 in M. Reichert & R. Hawley Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys i. iii. 37 Those who could not spell the words properly could not put the crossword together properly, and those who didn't understand the context also couldn't make it work—this was the same for both the maker of the crossword and the answerer. b. A person who answers back. In later use only more fully answerer-back. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > regarded as impertinent > one who gives answerera1555 a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) ii. f. 13^v Seruauntes..shal not be murmurers, nor frowarde answerers. a1602 W. Perkins Godlie & Learned Expos. Epist. Iude (1606) 99/1 Let inferiours..learne obedience, and silent subiection vnto superiours; the seruant or subiect must not be a gainsaier, nay not an answerer againe. 1883 O. Frankfurter Handbk. Pali (1999) 159/2 ‘Mukh jornu’—‘To answer back.’ ‘Mukh jorne’—‘An answerer back.’ 1945 Bell Aug. 445 Right Again Barnum might be satisfactory if staged like a White Minstrel Show with Back-Chatterer in one corner and Answerer-Back in the other. 1978 New Woman Mar. 78/3 Look for eye contact. Be a looker and a watcher. Then be a talker and a listener and an answerer-back. 2000 B. Stimpson tr. P. Valéry Ego in Cahiers/Notebooks I. 121 Curriculum vitae... the scatterbrain... the weakling... the blusher... the answerer-back... the deep one. †4. A person responsible for something; spec. an official of the Augmentation Court responsible for revenue. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > responsibility > [noun] > fact of being responsible, answerable, or liable > one who is answerable or liable accountant1449 accounter1534 answererc1613 c1613 (?c1538) in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 234 One farme hold..which..I did speake to the Ansurer for the use of the said children. 1826 Wilhemina iii. iii. 36 In the struggle, when he thinks it not, shall fall the wretch, and I will be the answerer for it. 1850 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (ed. 2) I. 66/2 Ansurer, the answerer; the person who answered to the Court of Augmentation for the rents and profits. 5. a. A person who takes action in response to an appeal, prayer, summons, call, knock on a door, telephone ring, etc. ΚΠ 1642 J. Grant Lords Prayer Enhanced in Gods Deliv. Man by Prayer sig. E We have our gratious enjoyment to betake our selves in prayer unto thee, whose title is the hearer and answerer of prayers. 1654 D. Dickson Brief Explic. Last 50 Psalmes 307 When they are looked back upon in the clear light of accomplished deliverance, the least degrees of delivery and secret supporting of the man under trouble; will appear clearly to be answerers of prayer. 1726 A. Gavin Master-key to Popery (1812) iv. 207 The answerer is with good reason afraid of making any delay in opening the street door. 1799 P. Greig Let. 6 May in Missionary Mag. 21 Oct. 474 In the midst of all our trials, our God has been very gracious unto us, for we have truly experienced him to be the hearer and answerer of prayer. 1847 J. S. Knowles Fortescue xviii. 67/2 Herself the answerer of his summons. 1882 E. J. W. Gibb tr. ‘Iqbāli’ in Ottoman Poems 112 Eternal, Answerer in need! 1952 in A. M. Rose Union Solidarity ii. 40 Say that you are the interviewer for the union, and that you had an appointment with Mr. —— —— for this evening, and do you (the person answering the door) know anything about it. Perhaps the answerer can make an appointment for another day. If not, ask the answerer to please take a message to the respondent. 2007 E. A. Schegloff Sequence Organization in Interaction v. 89 Unlike the solicitation of recognition, self-identification (by a caller who is recognizable to the answerer of the phone) is uncommon. b. In full telephone (also phone) answerer. = answering machine n. at answering n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > system or equipment for leaving voice messages answerphone1917 answering machine1924 answerer1959 voicebank1978 voicemail1980 voice mailbox1980 voice messaging1981 voice box1984 1959 Economist 15 Aug. 458/2 One of the advantages claimed for the other answerers has been that calls will be shorter if messages can be recorded. 1975 Pop. Sci. Apr. 89/3 Phone answerer. What's the newest thing about this Record-A-Call phone-answering machine? The price. 1993 R. Burns Endangered Species v. 37 The fifth John Marshall had a telephone answerer that..said that John was too busy having fun to answer the phone right now. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June d5 (advt.) VTech 5.8 GHz Expandable Cordless Phone and Digital Answerer. Hands-free speakerphone in handset and base. 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