replication

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REPLICA'TION, noun [Latin replicatio. See Reply.] 1. An answer; a reply. Particularly, 2. In law pleadings, the reply of the plaintiff to the defendant's plea. 3. Return or repercussion of sound. [Not used.]
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