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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Respond \Re*spond"\, noun
1. An answer; a response. [R.]
2. (Eccl.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
3. (Arch.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch. --Oxf. Gloss.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Respond \Re*spond"\ (r?*sp?nd"), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Responded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Responding}.] [OF. respondre, F. r['e]pondre, fr. L. respondere, responsum; pref. re- re- + spondere to promise. See {Sponsor}.]
1. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.
2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe. --Buckminster.
To every theme responds thy various lay. --Broome.
3. To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. [U.S.]
Syn: To answer; reply; rejoin. See {Reply}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Respond \Re*spond"\, verb (used with an object)
1. To answer; to reply.
2. To suit or accord with; to correspond to. [R.]
For his great deeds respond his speeches great. --Fairfax.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
respond
verb
1: show a response or a reaction to something [syn: {react}]
2: reply or respond to; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation" [syn: {answer}, {reply}]
3: respond favorably or as hoped; "The cancer responded to the aggressive therapy"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "respond": acknowledge, act, advocate, allege in support, alternate, answer, answer back, antiphon, apprehend, argue for, assert, bandy, be affected, be aware of, be conscious of, be in tune, be inspired, be involved, be moved, be quits with, be sensible of, behave, care about, catch the flame, catch the infection, champion, change, change color, color with emotion, come back, come back at, come in, commute, compensate, contend for, cooperate, counter, counterchange, defend, dig, echo, empathize with, espouse, exchange, experience, feel, feel for, flash back, get back at, get even with, give acknowledgment, give and take, give answer, hear, identify with, interchange, logroll, maintain, make a plea, pay back, perceive, permute, pity, plead for, react, rebut, reciprocate, reecho, refute, rejoin, rejoinder, relate to emotionally, reply, requite, respond to, respond to stimuli, response, retaliate, retort, return, return answer, return for answer, return the compliment, reverberate, riposte, say, say in defense, say in reply, see, sense, share, shoot back, smell, snap back, speak for, speak up for, stand up for, stick up for, support, sustain, swap, switch, sympathize with, take the bait, talk back, taste, touch, trade, transpose, uphold, urge reasons for
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
RESPOND, v.i. To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having inspired an interest in what Herbert Spencer calls "external coexistences," as Satan "squat like a toad" at the ear of Eve, responded to the touch of the angel's spear. To respond in damages is to contribute to the maintenance of the plaintiff's attorney and, incidentally, to the gratification of the plaintiff.
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