adj. Of or pertaining to a response (in all senses)
adj. Responsive
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Responsory; antiphonal.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Responsive; specifically, sung in response to or alternation with a lector or precentor.
n. An office-book formerly in use, containing the responsories or these and the antiphons for the canonical hours.
Word Usage
"Whatever the human author's conscious intent may have been, the Spirit is clearly speaking through this text of Jesus Christ and the motives of those who brought him to his earthly end—as does the "responsorial" psalm that follows."