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c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 226 (MED) How my wordis han be þus chalengid..writyngis in þe repliers side and writyngis aȝen in my side beren witnes.

1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie Pref. to Rdr. I do first laye forthe the wordes of D. Harding, printed in a seueral letter, vpon and aboute the whiche, the Replier hath noted the Vntruthe.

1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. K iij^v The Replyers hauing no longer time to prouide their arguments.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 531 Matthias Toring the replier to Burgensis.

1644 P. Hunton Vindic. Treat. Monarchy iii. 13 The Replier vainly carpes at the name, when he cannot denie the thing.

1739 Vindic. Def. Baptism vi. 147 The Replier's arguing from the sameness of effect to the sameness of cause.

1787 D. Taylor 2nd Diss. Singing i. 5 Ought not a replier to consider the arguments of his opponent?

1815 C. Lamb Let. 19 Oct. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 202 I am forced to be the replier to your Letter, for Mary has been ill.

1889 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 27 26 We would suppose that to that sentiment it was very easy to make a reply, but the difficulty was where to look for the replier.

1900 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 5 312/2 One of the repliers..adds to his explanation a somewhat amusing supplement.

1945 Jrnl. Marketing 10 86/1 Results also show that the members of each group of repliers are distributed geographically in almost exactly the same pattern as the original list.

2006 Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. 81 Another reply to ‘Howdidoo?’ is ‘Howdidoo?’ back again. What is not required is a detailed description of the replier's piles.