a. Now rare or arch. [f. as prec. + -IVE: cf. responsive.] Corresponding, correspondent, answering.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., Prol. 18. With massie Staples And corresponsiue and fulfilling Bolts.
1658. Slingsby, Diary (1836), 200. To educate [you] in a corresponsive way to your extraction.
1809–10. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 78. He … weds the past in the present to some prepared and corresponsive future.
1880. Swinburne, Study Shaks., i. (ed. 2), 25. A study by the ear alone of Shakespeare’s metrical progress, and a study by light of the knowledge thus obtained of the corresponsive progress within.
Hence Corresponsively adv. rare.
In mod. Dicts.
