adv. arch. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In an answerable manner; correspondingly, proportionally, conformably, suitably, fittingly. a. absol.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VI. xxv. (1632), 129. Had his mind been answerably furnished with vertue.

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1662.  Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 317. Held the state of a bishop, answerably habited.

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1713.  Derham, Phys.-Theol., V. iv. 333. If Beasts had been made answerably bigger, there would not have been Grass enough.

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1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VI. 147. May I behave answerably!

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  b.  with to. Conformably to, consistently with.

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1658.  Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, II. 504. Answerably unto the wisdom of that eminent Botanologer.

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1698.  [R. Fergusson], View of Ecclesiastick, To Reader. He had Acted but answerably to the Badge he wears; [etc.].

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1728.  Morgan, Algiers, I. iv. 114. Rewarded him answerably to his Demerits.

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