answerable

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Required to justify one's actions (to somebody)

   Required to justify one's actions (to somebody); accountable, responsible.

2. 2

   Able to be answered.

   • Is my question answerable on basis of the reading alone or does it go outside the information given in the story?
3. 3

   Correspondent, in accordance

   Correspondent, in accordance; comparable (to).

   • What wit and policie of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?
   • To this revelation he assented the sooner, as he confesses, because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
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   1. 4

      Proportionate

      Proportionate; commensurate in amount; suitable.

      • […] at my farm / I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail, / Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls, / And all things answerable to this portion.
      • By my other wife I had a daughter, so hard favoured, so foule and ill faced, that I thinke a grove full of golden trees; and the leaves of Rubies and Dyamonds, would not bee a dowrie aunswerable to her deformitie.
   2. 5

      Of an argument

      Of an argument: capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.

      • [T]he argument, though ſubtle, is yet anſwerable.

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