Word Meanings - SURREJOINDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

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• 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
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• ANSWERLESS
  Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.
• ANSWERABLE
  1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that
• DEFENDANT
  1. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak. 2. Making defense.
• ANSWERABLY
  In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
• ANSWERER
  One who answers.
• ANSWERABLENESS
  The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
• 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.
• UNANSWERABLE
  Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv.
• SURREJOINDER
  The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
• CODEFENDANT
  A joint defendant. Blackstone.
• UNANSWERABILITY
  The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness.
• UNANSWERED
  1. Not answered; not replied; as, an unanswered letter. 2. Not refuted; as, an unanswered argument. 3. Not responded to in kind; unrequited; as, unanswered affection.
• REANSWER
  To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for. Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under. Shak.