Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...only proper way; that alter and not unus is "one of two," and that the preposition is inadmissible. Now it happens that what is wanted here is not alter, "one as opposed to the other," but unus, "one without the other; one and not two." But the only proper answer, the all sufficient answer, is to refer to Horace (Satires, I. 4, 10): Versus dictabat stans pede in uno, where the editions and dictionaries speak of it as a proverbial expression. Not that stans pede altero might not be used in some cases. If Mr. Reiley were to call...
...never an answer have heard...
...Charley dear, send me an answer...
...idea of this communication is worth notice, however. While agreeing with the author of last week's article in condemning the violence of President Buckham's letter, the anonymous writer thinks that the dignity of the President of a University demands an answer characterized with something besides "flippancy" and "pertness...
...necessary to have sappers and miners, it appears to me that the Harvard Rifle Corps might be instructed, and at the same time utilized, by digging ditches, etc., for these would answer the same purpose as trenches, and be infinitely more useful...