respondingadj.

1653 S. Fisher Παιδοβαπτιζοντες Παιδιζοντες: Baby-baptism 315 The Rebellious Ranter repenting and being baptized..shall enter into the kingdome of God, before the responding Rantizer resolving wilfully to persevere in his error.

1719 C. Middleton Full & Impartial Acct. Proc. against Dr. Bentley 6 By virtue of this opposition he saved to the responding Doctor the forfeiture of the same sum elsewhere.

1766 W. Perfect Laurel-wreath I. 153 Responding hills thy praises ring, And musick fills the vale!

1819 T. Chalmers Serm. (1836) I. 232 A responding affection can be deposited in the heart of man.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. iv. 42 A loud responding sob rose at once from the wide multitude.

1933 C. Vandyck Contract Contracted 21 As the Playing Trick count is not used until the Trump Suit has been decided upon the Responding Hand is obviously the first one to use it.

1965 in J. Money Sex Research 107 Seldom does the responding female directly manipulate the clitoris through an entire sexual response cycle.

1968 R. Kyle Love Lab. (1969) xviii. 210 Data on several hundred responding individuals has more scientific validity than data on one.

2002 Backwoods Home Mag. July 49/2 Sometimes, the first responding officer will be an ‘on-call’ patrolman or deputy.

1670 J. Moxon Pract. Perspective 62 Be carefull to draw every stroak thereof in its responding Square and part of the Square, with the same proportion to each of these Squares that you find in the squares of the second Plain.

1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants i. i. vii. 45 The two next are properly the Coats. In a Bean especially, and the like; from whence, to avoyd Confusion, the denomination may run common to the responding Covers of other Seeds.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 237 He..removes them to the responding Quarter of the Form Imposing, into the responding places.