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Relative
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) 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.
(2):
(a.) Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
(3):
(a.) Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.
(4):
(a.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(n.) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
(7):
(n.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Relative'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/relative.html. 1828.
