v. i. 1. To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

All negative or privative words relate positive ideas. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make reference; to take account. [ R. & Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Related; p. pr. & vb. n. Relating. ] [ F. relater to recount, LL. relatare, fr. L. relatus, used as p. p. of referre. See Elate, and cf. Refer. ] 1. To bring back; to restore. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again
Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. [ 1913 Webster ]

This heavy act with heavy heart relate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To ally by connection or kindred. [ 1913 Webster ]

To relate one's self, to vent thoughts in words. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To tell; recite; narrate; recount; rehearse; report; detail; describe. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric and magnetic forcec are closely related. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Narrated; told. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) Same as Relative, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. [ R. ] Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who relates or narrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. relation, L. relatio. See Relate. ] 1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. [ 1913 Webster ]

&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;oet's relation doth well figure them. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things, or any comparison which is made by the mind, is a relation. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Reference; respect; regard. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children. [ 1913 Webster ]

Relations dear, and all the charities
Of father, son, and brother, first were known. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman. [ 1913 Webster ]

For me . . . my relation does not care a rush. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) (a) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation. (b) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun. Wharton. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Recital; rehearsal; narration; account; narrative; tale; detail; description; kindred; kinship; consanguinity; affinity; kinsman; kinswoman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having relation or kindred; related. [ 1913 Webster ]

We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indicating or specifying some relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A relative; a relation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. relatif, L. relativus. See Relate. ] 1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll have grounds
More relative than this. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every thing sustains both an absolute and a relative capacity: an absolute, as it is such a thing, endued with such a nature; and a relative, as it is a part of the universe, and so stands in such a relations to the whole. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other. Moore (Encyc. of Music). [ 1913 Webster ]

Relative clause (Gram.), a clause introduced by a relative pronoun. --
Relative term, a term which implies relation to, as guardian to ward, matter to servant, husband to wife. Cf. Correlative. [ 1913 Webster ]