[f. as prec. + -ING2. Not common before the present century; now superseding correspondent.]
1. That corresponds or answers to another; correspondent.
1579. Digges, Stratiot., II. v. 40. Which Deducted from the corresponding parte of the Divisible leaueth 0.
1683. Soame & Dryden, trans. Boileau’s Art of Poetry, I. Differing parts have corresponding grace.
1797–1804. Bewick, Brit. Birds (1847), I. 215. An obtuse angle in the lower mandible … a corresponding angle in the upper one.
1840. Lardner, Geom., 127. The triangles are … similar; therefore their corresponding sides are proportional.
1874. Green, Short Hist., viii. 481. His reserve … was met by a corresponding caution.
2. That corresponds by letters.
Corresponding member of a society: one residing at a distance, who corresponds with the society by letters, but has no deliberative voice in its affairs.
1760–72. trans. Juan & Ulloa’s Voy. (ed. 3), II. 373. The royal academy of sciences … were pleased to express their esteem … by admitting him a corresponding member.
1780. Cowper, Progr. Err., 311. Corresponding misses fill the ream With sentimental frippery.
1872. Stanley, Lect. Ch. Scot., Title-p., Corresponding member of the Institute of France.
