单词 | respondence |
释义 | respondencen. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > responsibility > [noun] > fact of being responsible, answerable, or liable accounta1393 respondence1586 accountableness1625 accountability1750 answerability1769 amenability1789 liability1794 answerableness1813 accountment1857 1586 Ld. Burghley Let. 21 July in Earl of Leicester Corr. (1844) 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. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] swarec1175 responsec1300 answeringc1330 respoun?a1400 replicationc1405 resolutiona1500 replyal1548 replying1548 reply1577 respondence1590 interlocution1597 reanswer1599 responsure1600 answerage1642 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa8v Th'Angelicall soft trembling voyces made To th'instruments diuine respondence meet. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xi. v. 196 With sweet respondence in harmonious kinde Their humble song the..aire doth beat. 1606 W. Cowper Conduit of Comfort sig. E4v We must therefore consider, if there be in the heart a respondence and answering vnto the Lord. 1799 T. J. Mathias Shade of Pope 23 Blasts from Avernus, in respondence meet, Hoarse through the leafless branches howl around, And birds of night return the obscener sound. 1817 C. Cuthbertson Rosabella I. x. 222 Nor could the polite attentions of Mr. Egremont himself fail of drawing forth the respondence of urbanity, which led her, although unwilling, to ask him to be seated. b. Medicine and Psychology. Response to a situation or sensory stimulus. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > [noun] > emotional reaction to stimulus respondence1846 response1887 reaction1899 1846 Lancet 2 May 511/2 The peculiar structure of its nervous apparatus, which causes a certain movement to be executed in respondence to a given impression. 1867 H. Maudsley Physiol. & Pathol. of Mind 92 The act is consensual, or..instinctive, in respondence to a visual sensation or picture. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. iv. 112 Every state of ideational consciousness which is either very strong or habitually repeated leaves an organic impression on the cerebrum; in virtue of which that same state may be reproduced at any future time, in respondence to a suggestion fitted to excite it. 1903 Med. Dial Mar. 55/1 The pupils were contracted, and gave no respondence to light. 3. Correspondence; agreement, concord. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] accordmentc1330 accorda1398 consonancya1398 unitya1398 accordancea1400 commoningc1400 convenience1413 correspondence1413 answeringc1425 conformityc1430 consonance1430 congruity1447 concordancec1450 consonantc1475 agreement1495 monochordc1500 conveniencya1513 agreeance1525 agreeableness1531 concinnity1531 congruence1533 harmony?1533 concent1563 tunableness1569 agreeing1575 answerableness1577 concert1578 consent1578 sympathy1578 concord1579 symphonia1579 correspondency1589 atone1595 coherence1597 respondence1598 symphony1598 sortance1600 coherency1603 respondency1603 symbolizing1605 coaptation1614 compositiona1616 sympathizing1632 comportance1648 compliance1649 syntax1649 concinneness1655 symmetry1655 homology1656 consistency1659 consentaneousness1660 consistence1670 comportment1675 harmoniousness1679 symbolism1722 congruousness1727 accordancy1790 sameness1790 consentaneity1798 consilience1840 chime1847 consensus1854 solidarity1874 synchromesh1966 concordancing1976 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. v. i. 56 His Rent in faire respondence must arise. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 20–21) 364 In fit respondence to the worke of our redemption. 1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. vii. 80 The suitableness or respondence betwixt the several parts of the stock and Cyon. 1794 A. 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. 1835 B. Dockray On Mutual Tolerance 32 By the respondence between them, we come to know, that this experimental revelation of Himself, and that other.., are, both of them, divine. 1863 J. M. Neale Ess. Liturgiol. v. 125 The five great epochs of the Church..bear no mutual respondence. 1999 L. Y. S. Fong & D. K. Chung in D. S. Sandhu Asian & Pacific Islander Amer. 203 Any search for change should consider..the respondence of Yin and Yang forces. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1586 |
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