Category:Relation

Re*la"tion (r-l"shn), n. Etym: [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. Relation doth well figure them. Bacon.

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. 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.

3. Reference; respect; regard. I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in Relation to its agreement with poetry. Dryden.

4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; As, the relation of parents and children. Relations dear, and all the charities of father, son, and brother, First were known. Milton.

5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a Kinsman or kinswoman. For me. . . my relation does not care a rush. Ld. Lytton.

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.

Syn. -- recital; rehearsal; narration; account; narrative; tale; detail; Description; kindred; kinship; consanguinity; affinity; kinsman; Kinswoman.