Correspond

kor-e-spond′, v.i. to answer, suit, agree (with to , with ): to hold intercourse, esp. by sending and receiving letters.— ns. Correspond′ence , Correspond′ency , suitablene , harmony, relation of agreement: friendly intercourse: communication by means of letters: letters which pa between correspondents.— adj. Correspond′ent , agreeing with: suitable.— n. one with whom intercourse is kept up by letters: one who contributes letters to a journal.— adv. Correspond′ently .— adj. Correspond′ing , correspondent: answering: suiting: carrying on correspondence by letters.— adv. Correspond′ingly .— adj. Correspon′sive , corresponding: answering.— Doctrine of correspondences , the theory of Swedenborg that there is a spiritual antitype corresponding to every natural object, and that Scripture contains the key to these correspondences. [Coined from L. cor , with, and respondēre .]