Replicant
(Rep"li*cant) n. One who replies.
Replicate
(Rep"li*cate) v. t. To reply. [Obs.]
Replicate
(Rep"li*cate Rep"li*ca`ted) a. [L. replicatus, p. p. of replicare. See Reply.] Folded over or
backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.
Replication
(Rep`li*ca"tion) n. [L. replicatio. See Reply.]
1. An answer; a reply. Shak.
Withouten any repplicacioun.
Chaucer. 2. (Law Pleadings) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea.
3. Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo.
To hear the replication of your sounds.
Shak. 4. A repetition; a copy.
Farrar.
Syn. — Answer; response; reply; rejoinder.
Replier
(Re*pli"er) n. One who replies. Bacon.
Replum
(||Re"plum) n. [L., doorcase.] (Bot.) The framework of some pods, as the cress, which remains
after the valves drop off. Gray.
Reply
(Re*ply") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Replied (-pl?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Replying.] [OE. replien, OF. replier,
F. répliquer, fr. L. replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref. re- re- + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf.
Replica.]
1. To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
Rom. ix. 20. 2. (Law) 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.
Reply
(Re*ply"), v. t. To return for an answer. Milton.
Lords, vouchsafe
To give me hearing what I shall reply.
Shak. Reply
(Re*ply"), n.; pl. Replies [See Reply, v. i., and cf. Replica.] That which is said, written, or
done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.
Syn. — Answer; rejoinder; response. — Reply, Rejoinder, Answer. A reply is a distinct response to
a formal question or attack in speech or writing. A rejoinder is a second reply (a reply to a reply) in
a protracted discussion or controversy. The word answer is used in two senses, namely in the most
general sense of a mere response; as, the answer to a question; or in the sense of a decisive and satisfactory
confutation of an adversary's argument, as when we speak of a triumphant answer to the speech or
