Word Meanings - COMES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The answer to the theme in a fugue.

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• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• THEME
  A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem. 5. That by means of which a thing is done; means; instrument. Swift. (more
• ANSWERLESS
  Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.
• ANSWERABLE
  1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that
• FUGUE
  A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth
• ANSWERABLY
  In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
• ANSWERER
  One who answers.
• ANSWERABLENESS
  The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
• UNANSWERABLE
  Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv.
• EMBREATHEMENT
  The act of breathing in; inspiration. The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost. W. Lee.
• NYCTHEMERON
  The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours.
• UNANSWERABILITY
  The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness.
• ENSWATHEMENT
  The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.
• UNANSWERED
  1. Not answered; not replied; as, an unanswered letter. 2. Not refuted; as, an unanswered argument. 3. Not responded to in kind; unrequited; as, unanswered affection.
• REANSWER
  To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for. Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under. Shak.