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respondence|rɪˈspɒndəns|
[a. obs. F. respondence, = Sp. and Pg. respondencia, It. rispondenza: see respond v. and -ence.]
1.
†a. ? Responsibility, liability. Obs. rare—1.
1586Burghley in Leicester's Corr. (Camden) 358 The states commissaries haue not been made privie to our musters and paiements, whearebie the issue will be, respondence for repaiment to bee made hereafter to hir majesty.
b. (See intendence.)
†2. Answer, response, to a sound. Obs.
1590Spenser F.Q ii. xii. 71 Th' Angelicall soft trembling voyces made To th' instruments divine respondence meet. 1600Fairfax Tasso xi. v, With sweet respondence in harmonious kinde Their humble song the..aire doth beat.
3. Correspondence, agreement, concord.
1598Bp. Hall Sat. v. i. 57 His rent in faire respondence must arise. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter i. 21 In fit respondence to the work of our redemption. 1673–4Grew Anat. Pl., Anat. Roots vii. 140 The suitableness and respondence betwixt the several Parts of the Stock and Cyon. 1794A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 381 With such a guest, the respondence of intellect..must have added zest to the delight of gazing on scenery so lovely. 1863Neale Ess. Liturg. v. 125 The five great epochs of the Church..bear no mutual respondence.
b. Response to some stimulus.
1867H. Maudsley Physiol. Mind 92 The act is consensual, or..instinctive, in respondence to a visual sensation or picture. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. (1879) 44 Movements in respondence to the impressions made by external agencies. |