Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of answering; answer; reply.
- noun In ancient prosody: The metrical correspondence between strophe and antistrophe.
- noun A formal correspondence between successive parts in dialogue.
- noun plural The first examination which those students at Oxford have to pass who are candidates for the degree of B. A.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of answering.
- noun (University of Oxford) The first university examination; -- called also
little go . See underLittle , a.
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- noun rare An
answer orreply ; aresponse .
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Examples
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"In view of this palpable evasion of justice through obstinate non responsion, will it please the Court to overrule the prisoner's objection?"
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Hers is the sin of silence, the grievous evasion of justice by non - responsion, whereby the danger she will not avert by confession recoils upon her innocent head.
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"though without direct responsion among themselves, still indicate the continued punishment of the pirates."
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Assembly, [68] "touchinge three necks of meadowe, whch Huntington had formerly purchased of _Muntaukatt_ Sarchem, and he informs true properiety as also in responsion to Oyster Bay inhabitants, who lay a claime to part of the said three Necks, saying thare are fouer necks & one thereof belongs to them, the said _Chickinoe_ now did playnly and cleerly demonstrate before them that the Tree he first marked by his
John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records William Wallace Tooker 1882
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