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- verb Obsolete spelling of
answer .
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Examples
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Mithridanes, excusing no further his malevolent deliberation, but rather commending the honest defence, which Nathan made on his behalfe; proceeded so farre in after discoursing, as to tel him plainely, that it did wondrously amaze him, how he durst come to the fatall appointed place, himselfe having so exactly plotted and contrived his owne death: whereunto Nathan returned this aunswere.
The Decameron 2004
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And also that they are free from all shires and hundreds: so that if any person will plead against them, they shall not aunswere nor pleade otherwise then they were wont to plead in the time of the lord, king Henrie our great grandfather.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The organs aunswere every verse with sweete and solemne cheare.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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Prayer, sir Andrew Oliphant one of the Byshops Priestes, commanded hym to arise and to aunswere to his Articles, saying on this manner: sir
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Now if ye will examine these foure _bissillables_ [_re-mna-nt_] [_re ` ma-ine_] [_re-nde ` r_] [_re ` ne ` t_] for an example by which ye may make a generall rule, and ye shall finde, that they aunswere our first resolution.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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First the steward and buttler (who for their auncient fidelity kept their places according as they had long before beene appointed by the Colledge) were commaunded to bring their bookes, and by them to call up all the howse, whereupon (every one beeing first charged to aunswere to his name) it presently appeared who were present and who were absent.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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Walter Mille, arise and aunswere to the Articles, for you hold my Lord here ouer long.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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The organs aunswere every verse with sweete and solemne cheere.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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The organs aunswere every verse with sweete and solemne cheare.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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Prince to the marshalls of the hall and other officers to search the chambers for sleepers, and where they made aunswere to aske the reason of their slothfull neglect or wilfull contempt of the Prince's commands, and if they pleaded either infirmity or age to take their fine, and so quietly to depart, first causing them faithfull to give their words that they harboured no other idle or suspicious parsons.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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