单词 | reanswer |
释义 | † reanswern. Obsolete. rare. Reply, response (as a mass noun); to make reanswer: to reply or respond. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] swarec1175 responsec1300 answeringc1330 respoun?a1400 replicationc1405 resolutiona1500 replyal1548 replying1548 reply1577 respondence1590 interlocution1597 reanswer1599 responsure1600 answerage1642 1599 Hist. Syr Clyomon & Clamydes sig. H3v Who art thou, or whats thy name: reanswere quickly make. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020). reanswerv. 1. a. transitive. To answer; to give answer to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > answer [verb (transitive)] andwurdec885 aqueathOE answerOE swarec1175 respoundc1300 replyc1425 replique1477 reanswer1523 replicate1535 undersay1579 rejoin1581 resolve1586 return1597 repone1614 resounda1617 repart1631 remoot1676 reason1841 to get back to1963 1523 More Let. 26 Sept. in State Papers (1830) I. 143 Which [commendation] I can never otherwise reanswere, than with my pore prayours. 1580 A. Saker Narbonus i. 90 To reply in such order as you will me, I stand amazed what to do, and yet fully you must be reanswered. 1596 R. Johnson Famous Hist. Seauen Champions viii. 78 His chiefe companion was the sweete resounding eccho, which commonly reanswered the Champions wordes. 1653 S. Fisher Παιδοβαπτιζοντες Παιδιζοντες: Baby-baptism 399 That much more vain, and pedling prit[t]le-prattle in which Mr. Baxter reanswers him. b. transitive. To give in return. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1580 A. Saker Narbonus i. 60 For euery sigh, she yeelded him a blush: and for euerie looke of loue, she reanswered him a dramme of desire. c. transitive. To make good, to restitute. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. D2v If a purse bee drawen..they take vp all the Nips and Foists about the cittie, and let them lie there [i.e. in Newgate] while the money be reanswered vnto the party. d. transitive. To meet; to be sufficient for, or equivalent to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > be equivalent to quitc1375 countervailc1380 containa1387 value1561 to go for ——1574 countervalue1581 weigh1583 avail1598 reanswer1598 commeasure1615 imply1634 equivalence1646 equivale1659 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > be sufficient for [verb (transitive)] > specifically a thing suffice1393 serve1445 reanswer1598 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 97 If..your enemy [be] very strong in horse, and you few horse or none to reanswere them. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vi. 128 The losses we haue borne..which in weight to re-answer, his pettinesse would bow vnder. View more context for this quotation 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) iv. 513 Rewards of their abstinence and vertues, as also to re-answer their benefactors confidence. 2. intransitive. To make an answer; to respond. Also transitive with speech as object. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [verb (intransitive)] andwurdec885 answerOE respoundc1300 replyc1405 replique1477 reanswer1526 respond1639 revert1973 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Gii He commeth to vs helpyng..vs: and we reaunswere to his grace. 1635 J. Hawkins tr. P. Aretino Paraphr. Seaven Psalmes 12 The hostile armes of wordly vanities haue conspired..and the senses which reanswere to their flatteries, corrupted by stately, and most magnificent sights. 1661 S. Pordage Mundorum Explicatio i. 67 The subtle Serpent thus reanswereth: And speak you Truth? what this Tree bring you Death? II. To give a second or further reply. 3. transitive. To answer again. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > answer [verb (transitive)] > for a second time reanswer1608 1608 S. Hieron 2nd Pt. Def. Ministers Reasons 179 Lyraes distinction betwene the facte and the zeale is before answered, and by and by shal be reanswered. 1808 J. Cottle Fall of Cambria I. ix. 168 All shouted, and with voice again refresh'd, Reanswer'd, ‘Death!’ ‘Death be thy instant lot!’ 1896 Ohio Democrat (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 19 Nov. As we are remarkably patient in answering and reanswering inquiries made in good faith, the information called for is given again. 1933 J. Clayton Sir Thomas More v. 87 The most profound and subtle philosophical questions had been raised and answered, and again reconsidered and reanswered. 1977 Word 28 78 I am grateful for her patience in answering and reanswering countless questions. 2004 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 19 Jan. 19 He's got to reanswer all those questions I asked him in 1989, to make sure he's clean. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599v.1523 |
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