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Corresponded

Correspond \Cor`re*spond"\ (k?r`r?-sp?nd"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Corresponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Corresponding.] [Pref. cor- + respond: cf. f. correspondre.]

  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.

    None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type.
    --J. A. Symonds.

  2. To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to.

    Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther.
    --Locke.

  3. To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with.

    After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond directly with the Pretender.
    --Macaulay.

    Syn: To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address.

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corresponded

vb. (en-past of: correspond)

Usage examples of "corresponded".

Just as to each of the skeletal joints of the man there corresponded, in the machine, a magnified, hermetically sealed joint of metal, so for each group of muscles that flexed or straightened a limb there were cannonlike cylinders in which pistons moved, pushed by pumped oil.

That corresponded to a high number of staff failing to show up for their shifts and reduced supplies of raw material.

Josep's codeword and body map corresponded to one of those on file, and the airstair door slid open.

None of that corresponded with the information that the AS trawled out from the datapool concerning the bungalow.

And if it obtained it, its possibilities of fleeing and of obtaining that they returned to lock up it in the jail, where it corresponded to be would increase to him enormously.

Cualq or to ier another moral woman and respectable of twenty-six years would have fought against Zachary Benedict to try to make fail its plans, to flee from its claws and to obtain that they returned it to capture and they sent it to prison, the place where it corresponded to him to be.

There are certainties of which it was arrested like youthful delinquent… Thing which we would not have found out if the authorities of adoption of Illinois had not left his legajo in the file, instead of it to have destroyed years ago, as ú l corresponded interrupted Pa.

And when you wanted that damn mansion that your father sent to us to build, was not because you wanted to be superior to the others, but because somewhere of your being really you thought that we would be happy there because… because it was the place that naturally corresponded to him to Katherine Cahill.

It had the same dimensions as the inside of Jude’s Eworld, but this was a cave of onyx, where every surface corresponded to walls and counters, fat stalagmites had replaced the flek sale bins.

Neither of them corresponded to their memory of where the road had been.

Each crystal, smaller than a grain of sand, a transparent needle, corresponded to a single ommatidium, an optic cone of a bee's compound eye.

The wires corresponded to the lines of the musical staff, the beads to the time-values of the notes, and so on.

It took weeks before he actually realized, and was convinced, that the magical events of that sacramental hour corresponded to a precise event in the real world, that the summons was not just a sense of happiness and admonition in his own soul and his own conscience, but a show of favor and an exhortation from the earthly powers.

For the strenuous and important role imposed upon him at that time, seemingly sent his way by sheer chance, in fact so closely corresponded with his whole nature that we are tempted to say his later life was nothing but a reiteration of this role, an ever more perfect adaptation to it.

The corruption which has been imputed to the drama as an effect, begins when the poetry employed in its constitution ends: I appeal to the history of manners whether the periods of the growth of the one and the decline of the other have not corresponded with an exactness equal to any example of moral cause and effect.