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Word Meanings - REJOINDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication. Syn. -- Reply; ansswer; replication. See Reply. (more info) 1. An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.

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  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • APOLOGY
    1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
  • TALLYHO
    1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
  • COUNTERPART
    One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate. 3. A person who closely resembles another. 4. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another
  • ANSWER
    1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
  • VINDICATION
    The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of
  • RETORTIVE
    Containing retort.
  • REPLICATION
    The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea. 3. Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo. To hear the replication of your sounds. Shak. 4. A repetition; a copy. Farrar. Syn. -- Answer; response; reply; rejoinder. (more
  • PRETERMIT
    To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon.
  • DEFENSER
    Defender. Foxe.
  • SOLUTION
    The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption. Note: When a solvent will not
  • RECIPROCATION
    1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness. 2. Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides. Sir T. Browne.
  • RETORTION
    Retaliation. Wharton. (more info) 1. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • EXCULPATION
    The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse. These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves. Southey.
  • DISREGARD
    Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
  • RESPONSELESS
    Giving no response.
  • ANSWERLESS
    Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.
  • REPLYER
    See BACON
  • ANSWERABLE
    1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that
  • IGNORE
    To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus. 3. Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly;
  • MONSEL'S SOLUTION
    An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
  • ACCIDENTALLY
    In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
  • NONSOLUTION
    Failure of solution or explanation.
  • ALIMENTALLY
    So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
  • HORIZONTALLY
    In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
  • RESOLUTIONER
    One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
  • SENTIMENTALLY
    In a sentimental manner.
  • TEETOTALLY
    Entirely; totally.
  • SACRAMENTALLY
    In a sacrament manner.
  • REPLY
    To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin. (more info) replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref.
  • BRUTALLY
    In a brutal manner; cruelly.
  • FUNDAMENTALLY
    Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.

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