Answer
An´swer Pronunciation: ăn´sẽr
v. t. | 1. | To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. |
| 2. | To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to. |
| 3. | To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. |
| 4. | To be or act in return or response to. |
| 5. | To render account to or for. |
| 6. | To atone; to be punished for. |
| 7. | To be opposite to; to face. |
| 8. | To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. |
| 9. | To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit. |
v. i. | 1. | To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response. |
| 2. | To make a satisfactory response or return. |
| 3. | To be or act in return. |
| 4. | To be opposite, or to act in opposition. |
n. | 1. | A reply to a charge; a defense. |
| 2. | Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. |
| 3. | Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action. |
| 4. | A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem. |
| 5. | (Law) 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 Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill. |
ANSWER, pleading in equity. A defence in writing made by a defendant, to the
charges contained in a bill or information, filed by the plaintiff against
him in a court of equity. The word answer involves a double sense; it is one
thing when it simply replies to a question, another when it meets a charge;
the answer in equity includes both senses, and may be divided into an
examination and a defence. In that part which consists of an examination, a
direct and full answer, or reply, must in general be given to every question
asked. In that part which consists of a defence, the defendant must state
his, case distinctly; but is not required to give information respecting the
proofs that are to maintain it. Gresl. Eq. Ev. 19.
2. As a defendant is called by a bill or information to make a
discovery of the several charges it contains, he must do so, unless he is
protected either by a demurrer a plea or disclaimer. It may be laid down as
an invariable rule, that whatever part of a bill or information is not
covered by one of these, must be defended by answer. Redesd. Tr. Ch. Pl.
244.
3. In form, it usually begins, 1st, with its title, specifying which of
the defendants it is the answer of, and the names of the plaintiffs in the
cause in which it is filed as answer; 2d, it reserves to the defendant all
the advantages which might be taken by exception to the bill; 3d, the
substance of the answer, according to the defendant's knowledge,
remembrance, information and belief, then follows, in which the matter of
the bill, with the interrogatories founded thereon, are answered, one after
the other, together with such additional matter as the defendant thinks
necessary to bring forward in his, defence, either for the purpose of
qualifying, or adding to, the case made by the bill, or to state a new case
on his own behalf; 4th, this is followed by a general traverse or denial of
all unlawful combinations charged in the bill, and of all other matters
therein contained 5th, the answer is always upon oath or affirmation, except
in the case of a corporation, in which case it is under the corporate seal.
4. In substance, the answer ought to contain, 1st, a statement of facts
and not arguments 2d, a confession and avoidance, or traverse and denial of
the material parts of the bill 3d, its language ought to be direct and
without evasion. Vide generally as to answers, Redes. Tr. Ch. Pl. 244 to
254; Coop. Pl. Eq. 312 to 327; Beames Pl. Eq. 34 et seq.; Bouv. Inst. Index,
h.t. For an historical account of this instrument, see 2 Bro. Civ. Law,
371, n. and Barton's Hist. Treatise of a Suit in Equity.
ANSWER, practice. The declaration of a fact by a witness after a question
has been put asking for it.
2. If a witness unexpectedly state facts against the interest of the
party calling him, other witnesses may be called by the same party, to
disprove those facts. But the party calling a witness cannot discredit him,
by calling witnesses to prove his bad character for truth and veracity, or
by proving that he has made statements out of court contrary to what he has
sworn on the trial; B. N. P.; for the production of the witness is virtually
an assertion by the party producing him, that he is credible.
Agnus Dei,
Benedicite,
ESP,
Gloria,
Gloria Patri,
Gloria in Excelsis,
Introit,
Magnificat,
Miserere,
Nunc Dimittis,
Parthian shot,
Te Deum,
Trisagion,
Vedic hymn,
accomplishment,
accord,
acknowledge,
acknowledgment,
action,
action and reaction,
ad hoc measure,
address,
advance,
advantage,
advocate,
affect,
affirmation,
agree,
allegation,
allege in support,
alleluia,
answer back,
answer conclusively,
answer for,
answer to,
anthem,
antiphon,
antiphonal chanting,
antiphony,
apostrophe,
appertain to,
apply to,
approach,
argue down,
argue for,
argument,
artifice,
ascertainment,
assent,
assert,
assertion,
assort with,
atone for,
automatic reaction,
autonomic reaction,
avail,
averment,
be OK,
be consistent,
be equal to,
be handy,
be of one,
be of use,
be right,
be uniform with,
bear,
bear on,
bear upon,
befit,
befitting,
belong to,
benefit,
bestead,
billet,
bottom,
bounceback,
business letter,
canticle,
champion,
chant,
check,
chime,
chit,
chorale,
clear up,
clearing up,
coequal,
cohere,
coincide,
come back,
come back at,
come in,
comeback,
comment,
commerce,
communicate with,
communication,
communion,
complement,
complete answer,
concern,
concur,
conform,
conform to,
conform with,
confound,
confounding,
confutation,
confute,
congress,
connect,
connection,
consist with,
contact,
contend for,
contradict,
contradiction,
contrivance,
controversion,
controvert,
conversation,
converse,
cooperate,
correspond,
correspond to,
correspondence,
counter,
countercharge,
countermove,
counterstatement,
coup,
course of action,
crack,
cracking,
crush,
deal with,
dealing,
dealings,
debug,
decipher,
decipherment,
declaration,
decode,
decoding,
defeat,
defence,
defend,
defense,
demarche,
demolish,
demolition,
demurrer,
denial,
denouement,
deny,
determination,
device,
dictum,
discrediting,
disentangle,
disentanglement,
dismiss,
dispatch,
dispose of,
disprove,
divine,
do,
do it,
do the job,
do the trick,
dodge,
dope,
dope out,
dovetail,
doxology,
echo,
effective rejoinder,
effort,
end,
end result,
epistle,
espouse,
establish connection,
exception,
exchange,
exclamation,
expedient,
explain,
explanation,
expression,
fall in together,
fathom,
favor,
figure out,
fill,
fill the bill,
find out,
find the answer,
find the solution,
finding,
finding-out,
finish,
fit,
fit together,
flash back,
floor,
forward,
fulfill,
get,
get by,
get right,
get to,
gimmick,
give acknowledgment,
give answer,
give good returns,
go around,
go together,
go with,
greeting,
guarantee,
guess,
guess right,
hack it,
hallelujah,
hang together,
harmonize,
have connection with,
have it,
hit,
hit it,
hold,
hold together,
hosanna,
hymn,
hymn of praise,
hymnody,
hymnography,
hymnology,
improvisation,
information,
interaction,
interchange,
intercommunication,
intercommunion,
intercourse,
interest,
interjection,
interlock,
interplay,
interpret,
interpretation,
interrogate,
intersect,
involve,
issue,
jibe,
jury-rig,
jury-rigged expedient,
just do,
justification,
last expedient,
last resort,
last shift,
laud,
letter,
liaise with,
line,
linguistic intercourse,
link with,
lock,
maintain,
make a plea,
make advances,
make contact with,
make out,
make overtures,
make the grade,
make up to,
makeshift,
maneuver,
mantra,
match,
means,
measure,
meet,
meet requirements,
mention,
message,
missive,
motet,
move,
nonplus,
not come amiss,
note,
objection,
observation,
offertory,
offertory sentence,
open the lock,
outcome,
overlap,
overthrow,
overthrowal,
overturn,
overwhelm,
paean,
parallel,
parry,
pass,
pass muster,
pay,
pay off,
pertain to,
phrase,
pis aller,
plea,
plead for,
pleading,
plumb,
position,
predictable response,
profit,
promote,
pronouncement,
psalm,
psalmody,
psych,
psych out,
put to silence,
puzzle out,
qualify,
question,
raise,
ravel,
ravel out,
reach,
react,
reaction,
reason,
rebut,
rebutter,
reciprocate,
recognize,
recriminate,
reduce to silence,
reecho,
refer to,
reflection,
reflex,
reflex action,
refluence,
reflux,
refutal,
refutation,
refute,
regard,
register,
register with,
rejoin,
relate,
relate to,
remark,
replication,
reply to,
report,
rescript,
resolution,
resolve,
resolving,
resort,
resource,
respect,
respond,
respond to,
respondence,
responsory,
responsory report,
result,
retroaction,
return,
return answer,
return for answer,
reverberate,
reverberation,
revulsion,
riddle,
riddling,
riposte,
rise,
satisfy,
say,
say in defense,
say in reply,
saying,
sentence,
serve,
serve the purpose,
settle,
shake-up,
shift,
shoot back,
shut up,
silence,
sing in chorus,
smash all opposition,
snap back,
social intercourse,
solution,
solve,
solving,
sort out,
sort with,
sorting out,
speak for,
speak up for,
speaking,
special demurrer,
special pleading,
speech,
speech circuit,
speech situation,
sponsor,
square,
square with,
squash,
squelch,
stand,
stand together,
stand up,
stand up for,
statement,
statement of defense,
step,
stick up for,
stopgap,
stratagem,
stretch,
stroke,
stroke of policy,
subjoinder,
subversion,
subvert,
suffice,
suit,
suit the occasion,
support,
surrebuttal,
surrebutter,
surrejoinder,
sustain,
tactic,
take it,
take the bait,
talk back,
talking,
tally,
telepathy,
temporary expedient,
thought,
tie in with,
touch,
touch upon,
traffic,
treat of,
trick,
truck,
trump,
two-way communication,
undermine,
undermining,
undo,
unlock,
unravel,
unraveling,
unriddle,
unriddling,
unscramble,
unscrambling,
unspinning,
untangle,
untangling,
unthinking response,
untwist,
untwisting,
unweave,
unweaving,
uphold,
upset,
upsetting,
upshot,
urge reasons for,
utterance,
versicle,
word,
work,
work out,
working,
working hypothesis,
working proposition,
working-out,
yield a profit