What is "answerer"

Usage examples of "answerer".

Eachard writ his book about the Contempt of the Clergy, numbers of those answerers immediately started up, whose memory, if he had not kept alive by his replies, it would now be utterly unknown that he were ever answered at all.

He hath seen the productions but of two answerers, one of which first appeared as from an unknown hand, but since avowed by a person, who, upon some occasions, hath discovered no ill vein of humour.

It was determined by a fair majority, that this answerer had, in a way not to be pardoned, drawn his pen against a certain great man then alive, and universally reverenced for every good quality that could possibly enter into the composition of the most accomplished person.

However this answerer produces three instances to prove this author's wit is not his own in many places.

Neither will he insist upon the mistake of the title, but let the answerer and his friend produce any book they please, he defies them to show one single particular, where the judicious reader will affirm he has been obliged for the smallest hint.

And thus much for this discreet, candid, pious, and ingenious answerer.

The Cup, known as the Cauldron of Rebirth, raised up their fallen, and the Sword, Fragarach the Answerer, held off Balor's creatures, and the Stone of Destiny kept the ground of Ireland whole and rooted when Balor would have dragged it off its foundations and overturned the whole island into the deep.

Fragarach the Answerer, shining under the light that hung down from the ceiling.

When the method is successful, it culminates in the questioner (usually Socrates) catching the answerer in a contradiction or in an argumentative impasse.

An impasse occurs when the answerer sees the problems with or the errors in his thinking and sees that he can progress no farther in the argument until he redefines his terms or even denies his original claim.

Ideally, however, the answerer can find a way out of the impasse and discover a truth.

So they placed in his tomb the 'Answerer" to respond when he was called to perform a task after he was dead.

He flew home puffing and snorting, and on the way he passed the house of the Amiable Answerer.

Cherry Quon's position in the setup was apparently minor, since she functioned chiefly as a receptionist and phone-answerer, but I had seen her black eyes dart daggers at Margot Dickey, who should have been clear out of her reach.

The cost was high for the asker—two of my rubies went to the coffers of the Fastness—but higher for the answerers.