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1731, Jonathan Swift, “The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man, with respect to Religion and Government” in Miscellanies, London: Benjamin Motte and Charles Bathurst, Volume I, Section 2, p. 91,
Should any Man argue, that he cannot be justly punished, but is answerable only to God
(of a question) Able to be answered.
2013, Marc Moeller, Victor Moeller, Middle School English Teacher's Guide to Active Learning, page 67:
Is my question answerable on basis of the reading alone or does it go outside the information given in the story?
To this revelation he assented the sooner, as he confesses, because it was answerable to that of the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
By my other wife I had a daughter, so hard favoured, so foule and ill faced, that I thinke a grove full of golden trees; and the leaves of Rubies and Dyamonds, would not bee a dowrie aunswerable to her deformitie.
(rare) Of an argument: capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.