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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Relate

Re·late′ (r?-l?t′), 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.]

Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser.

2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. [Obs. or R.]

3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over.

This heavy act with heavy heart relate. Shak.

4. To ally by connection or kindred.

To relate one's self, to vent thoughts in words. [R.]

Syn. — To tell; recite; narrate; recount; rehearse; report; detail; describe.

Re·late′, v. i. 1. To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; — with to.

All negative or privative words relate positive ideas. Locke.

2. To make reference; to take account. [R.& Obs.]

Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account. Fuller.

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; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.