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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reply \Re*ply"\ (r?-pl?"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Replied}
(-pl?d"); p. pr & vb n. {Replying}.] [OE. replien, OF
replier, F. r['e]pliquer, fr L. replicare to fold back make
a reply; pref. re- re- + plicare to fold. See {Ply}, and cf
{Replica}.]
1. To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to
answer.
O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
--Rom. ix 20.
2. (Law) To answer a defendant's plea.
3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something
done as to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a
battery.
Syn: To answer; respond; rejoin.
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