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Relation
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(n.) The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
(3):
(n.) Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.
(4):
(n.) A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.
(7):
(n.) Reference; respect; regard.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Relation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/relation.html. 1828.
