Part 478

<blockquote>At my first <b>answer</b> no man stood with me. <i>2 Tim. iv. 16.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.</def>

<blockquote>A soft <b>answer</b> turneth away wrath. <i>Prov. xv. 1.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I called him, but he gave me no <b>answer</b>. <i>Cant. v. 6.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.</def>

<blockquote>Great the slaughter is Here made by the Roman; great the <b>answer</b> be Britons must take. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the <b>answer</b> to a problem.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In <i>Equity</i>, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.</def>

<i>Bouvier.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Reply; rejoinder; response. See <er>Reply</er>.</syn>

<h1>Answerable</h1> <Xpage=61>

<hw>An"swer*a*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; <as>as, an agent is <ex>answerable</ex> to his principal; to be <ex>answerable</ex> for a debt, or for damages.</as></def>

<blockquote>Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is <b>answerable</b> only to God? <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.</def>

<blockquote>The argument, though subtle, is yet <b>answerable</b>. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.</def>

<blockquote>What wit and policy of man is <b>answerable</b> to their discreet and orderly course? <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This revelation . . . was <b>answerable</b> to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; <as>as, an achievement <ex>answerable</ex> to the preparation for it</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Equal; equivalent; adequate.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>Had the valor of his soldiers been <b>answerable</b>, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Answerableness</h1> <Xpage=61>

<hw>An"swer*a*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.</def>

<h1>Answerably</h1> <Xpage=61>

<hw>An"swer*a*bly</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.</def>

<h1>Answerer</h1> <Xpage=61>

<hw>An"swer*er</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who answers.</def>

<h1>Answerless</h1> <Xpage=61>