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- Correlative - a. - Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
- Correlative - n. - One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing.
- Correlative - n. - The antecedent of a pronoun.
- Correlatively - adv. - In a correlative relation.
- Correlativeness - n. - Quality of being correlative.
- Electro-positive - a. - Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative.
- Drawee - n. - The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
- Gammer - n. - An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.
- From - prep. - Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
- Consignee - n. - The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor.
- Writative - a. - Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative.
- Debtee - n. - One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.
- Groomsman - n. - A male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; -- the correlative of bridesmaid.
- Thither - a. - Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.
- Lady - n. - A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman.
- Type - n. - A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype.
- Antonym - n. - A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.
- Descendant - n. - One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
- Sannup - n. - A male Indian; a brave; -- correlative of squaw.
- -ee - - A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.
- Diastole - n. - The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.
- Vendee - n. - The person to whom a thing is vended, or sold; -- the correlative of vendor.
- Drawer - n. - One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.
- Other - conj. - Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).
- Uncle - n. - The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.
- Sister - n. - A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.
- Either - conj. Either - precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.
- Debtor - n. - One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.
- Disseizee - n. - A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor.
- Lady - n. - A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.
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