Word Meanings - SURREJOINDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
Related words: (words related to SURREJOINDER)
- PLAINTIFF
One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See - 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 - ANSWERLESS
Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. - 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 - DEFENDANT
1. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak. 2. Making defense. - ANSWERABLY
In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably. - ANSWERER
One who answers. - ANSWERABLENESS
The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent. - REJOINDER
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. - UNANSWERABLE
Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv. - SURREJOINDER
The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder. - CODEFENDANT
A joint defendant. Blackstone. - UNANSWERABILITY
The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness. - UNANSWERED
1. Not answered; not replied; as, an unanswered letter. 2. Not refuted; as, an unanswered argument. 3. Not responded to in kind; unrequited; as, unanswered affection. - REANSWER
To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for. Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under. Shak.