Corresponsive

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    jointly or mutually responsive: exchanging
  2. 2
    responsive to stimulus: responding, answering
  3. 3
    equivalent or similar in character: corresponding

    "Now on Dardan plains / The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch / Their brave pavilions: Priam's six-gated city, / Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, / And Antenorides, with massy staples / And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, / Sperr up the sons of Troy."

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"Now on Dardan plains / The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch / Their brave pavilions: Priam's six-gated city, / Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, / And Antenorides, with massy staples / And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, / Sperr up the sons of Troy."

Etymology

Formed as: correspons- (perfect passive participial stem of the Medieval Latin correspondeĊ) + -ive; compare responsive.

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