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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Correlative

Cor·rel′a·tive (k?r-r?l′?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. corrélatif.] Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.

Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.

Cor·rel′a·tive, n. 1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing. Locke.

Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives. Spelman.

2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article.