responsa in English
noun
questions and answers, type of Rabbinic literature in the form of letters with questions on Jewish and Halachic issues which are answered by authoritative Rabbis
Use "responsa" in a sentence
1. This mode of complex Antiphony is defined here as steady responsa
2. Many of the cases are responsa, in which the jurist is answering a legal enquiry.
3. Tractatus posthumus Jani Jacobi Boissardi Vesuntini De divinatione & magicis praestigiis : quarum veritas ac vanitas solidè exponitur per descriptionem deorum fatidicorum qui olim responsa dederunt : eorundemque prophetarum, sacerdotum, phoebadum, sybyllarum & divinorum, qui priscis temporibus celebres oraculis exstiterunt ; Adjunctis simul omnium effigiebus, ab ipso autore e gemmis