n. [ Pref. arch- + prelate. ] An archbishop or other chief prelate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. related by blood, i.e. by a common genetic heritage.
Syn. -- akin(predicate), cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5

v. same as correlate. [ Rare ]
Syn. -- correlate, correlate with. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Corresponding relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Correlated; p. pr. & vb. n. Correlating. ] [ Pref. cor- + relate. ] To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. mutually related.
Syn. -- correlative, correlate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Mathematics, statistics) showing a statistically significant relationship between the values of two or more variables; as, The statures of fathers and sons are correlated. [ PJC ]

n. [ LL. correlatio; L. cor- + relatio: cf. F. corrélation. Cf. Correlation. ] Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. [ 1913 Webster ]

Correlation of energy, the relation to one another of different forms of energy; -- usually having some reference to the principle of conservation of energy. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation. --
Correlation of forces, the relation between the forces which matter, endowed with various forms of energy, may exert. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. corrélatif. ] Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a correlative relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being correlative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness; interrelation.
Syn. -- interrelation, interrelationship. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Mutual or reciprocal relation; correlation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Irrelative; unconnected. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being irrelative; lack of connection or relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Irrelative chords (Mus.), those having no common tone. --
Irrelative repetition (Biol.), the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence or connection. Owen. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To relate inaccurately. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. prélat, LL. praelatus, fr. L. praelatus, used as p. p. of praeferre to prefer, but from a different root. See Elate. ] A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word and the words derived from it are often used invidiously, in English ecclesiastical history, by dissenters, respecting the Established Church system. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hear him but reason in divinity, . . .
You would desire the king were made a prelate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act as a prelate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Right prelating is busy laboring, and not lording. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Prelacy. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a prelate. Harmar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who is a prelate; the wife of a prelate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Prelatical. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to prelates or prelacy; as, prelatical authority. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a prelatical manner; with reference to prelates. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The last Georgic was a good prelude to the Aeneis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praelatio: cf. F. prélation. See Prelate, and cf. Prefer. ] The setting of one above another; preference. [ R. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Prelacy; episcopacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Prelatized p. pr. & vb. n. Prelatizing ] To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions. [ 1913 Webster ]

An episcopacy that began then to prelatize. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Prelaty; prelacy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ F. prélature, or LL. praelatura. ] The state or dignity of a prelate; prelacy. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Prelacy. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

n. One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation. Specifically: (a) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. “Confining our care . . . to ourselves and relatives.” Bp. Fell. (b) (Gram.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives “who”, “which”, “that”. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]