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- adjective Obsolete form of
answerable .
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Examples
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The Chapters of the same substance of their bases, with requisite meete and conuenient proportion aunswerable to the harmonie of the whole worke.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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_Poliphilus_: it will please me well saith she, if the effect of your conditions be aunswerable to your name.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Vpon this in order stood the coronice, wrought with such lyneaments as decently concurred, and were aunswerable to the excellencie of the rest of the worke: for other wise, as in a mans body one qualitie being contrarie to another, sicknesse dooth follow, the humors oppressing one an other in abundance: so in building if the adiuncts be vnaptly disposed, and vndecently distributed there will fall out a fowle deformitie.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Showing hir streight toes as it were incereating hir fingers to handle and streine them, the rest of hir bodie aunswerable to the perfections of these seuerall proportions.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Nature: not aunswerable to the precisenes of demonstration.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
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And as they will not be extended, to discontinuitie: So, will they not, nor yet of mans force, can be prest or pent, in space, not sufficient and aunswerable to their bodily substance.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
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