Word Meanings - SURREJOIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

Related words: (words related to SURREJOIN)

• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• REPLYER
  See BACON
• DEFENDANT
  1. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak. 2. Making defense.
• REPLY
  To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin. (more info) replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref.
• REJOINDER
  The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication. Syn. -- Reply; ansswer; replication. See Reply. (more info) 1. An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.
• SURREJOINDER
  The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
• CODEFENDANT
  A joint defendant. Blackstone.