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verb

Correspond v. i. (past & past part. corresponded; pres. part. corresponding)

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."

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."

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."

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

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... his task Burton straightway commenced the translation of a number of other Arabic tales which he eventually published as Supplemental Nights [493] in six volumes, the first two of which correspond with Mr. Payne's three volumes entitled Tales ...

— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright

... phrases are classified as Masculine and Feminine and they correspond exactly to the same effects in the metre of a poetic stanza. When the second chord of the cadence, whatever it may be, coincides with a strong beat, i.e., the first beat of the measure, the ...

— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding

... of thought stand related the one to the other? Kant's answer is that they correspond to the distinction between two worlds, the world of sense and the transcendental or supersensible world. The pure and the practical reason are the faculties of man for dealing with these two worlds respectively, ...

— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore

... (crossing a scarlet and white ribbon) surmounts the medallion bearing the vignette of Queen Victoria on one side, and on the obverse a design emblematic of the Dominion of Canada. For those who served in 1870 the same medal was granted, with lettering to correspond, while to the volunteers who were on duty on both occasions, an extra clasp was issued, to denote service in both 1866 and 1870. These medals are highly prized by the veterans of the Fenian Raids, as they are commemorative of a time in the history ...

— Troublous Times in Canada - A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 • John A. Macdonald

... account attributes it to Ine, the West Saxon. East Anglia, Kent, Essex, and Sussex all acknowledged his supremacy. Karl the Great was then reviving the Roman Empire in its Germanic form, and Offa ventured to correspond with the Frank emperor as an equal. The possession of London, now a Mercian city, gave Offa an interest in continental affairs; and the growth of trade is marked by the fact that when a quarrel arose between them, they formally closed the ports of their respective ...

— Early Britain - Anglo-Saxon Britain • Grant Allen

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