Relation

Definition of Relation

Re`la´tion Pronunciation: r?-l?´sh?n

n.	1.	The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. oet's 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) 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.

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