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answerable Adjective answerable for or to responsible for or accountable to
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answerable adjective responsible for or to, to blame for, liable for or to, accountable for or to, chargeable for, subject to Translations answerable [ˈɑːnsərəbl] adj answerable (to sb/for sth) → responsabile (verso qn/di qc); I am answerable to no-one → non devo rispondere a nessuno How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The following by certain estates of men, answerable to that, which a great person himself professeth (as of soldiers, to him that hath been employed in the wars, and the like), hath ever been a thing civil, and well taken, even in monarchies; so it be without too much pomp or popularity. We spent the next night in the mountains, but when we should have set out in the morning, were obliged to a fierce dispute with the old Moor, who had not yet lost his inclination to destroy us; he would have had us taken a road which was full of those people we were so much afraid of: at length finding he could not prevail with us, that we charged the goods upon him as belonging to the Emperor, to whom he should be answerable for the loss of them, he consented, in a sullen way, to go with us. The person answerable for this premature departure was Francis Westwick. |
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