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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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"Correspond" Quotes from Famous Books

... grasped. Hence the artist infuses into the world which he creates a new and wholly subjective simplicity and unity, to which there is no parallel in nature. The composition of elements in a picture does not correspond to any actual arrangement of elements in a landscape, but to the demands of visual perspicuity. The division of a novel into chapters, of the chapters into paragraphs, of the paragraphs into sentences, although it ...

— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

... the following day did not quite correspond to his expectations and at first did not please him at all. He was obliged to rise at seven and go to get his coffee in the weaver's quarters, then make his bed, clean his wash-basin, polish his boots, and generally tidy up the room. At ten o'clock ...

— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various

... and player of the violin. This man was a person of great intellect; he mastered every subject he attacked. By a careful examination of all the points that various fine-toned instruments had in common, he had arrived at a theory of sound; he made violins to correspond, and was remarkably successful in insuring that which had been too hastily ascribed ...

— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade

... Breviary as a liturgical book, we find that the Divine Office has four general divisions, corresponding to the divisions of our Lord's life. First, from Advent to Septuagesima; second, from Septuagesima to Easter; third, from Easter to Pentecost; fourth, from Pentecost to Advent. These divisions correspond also to the divisions of the year, winter, spring, ...

— The Divine Office • Rev. E. J. Quigley

... law went into effect in Boston should be a day of "fasting, humiliation, and prayer" in Virginia. For this the governor at once dissolved the legislature. But the members met and instructed a committee to correspond with the other colonies on the expediency of holding another general congress of delegates. All the colonies approved, and New York requested Massachusetts to name the time and place of meeting. This she did, selecting Philadelphia as the place, ...

— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

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