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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Collateral \Col*lat"er*al\, a. [LL. collateralis col- + lateralis lateral. See {Lateral}.] 1. Coming from being on or directed toward, the side as collateral pressure. ``Collateral light.'' --Shak. 2. Acting in an indirect way If by direct or by collateral hand They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . . To you in satisfaction. --Shak. 3. Related to but not strictly a part of the main thing or matter under consideration; hence subordinate; not chief or principal; as collateral interest; collateral issues. That he [Attebury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it . . . is true. --Macaulay. 4. Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as collateral evidence. Yet the attempt may give Collateral interest to this homely tale. --Wordsworth. 5. (Genealogy) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other -- opposed to lineal. Note: Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from different branches of that common stirps or stock. Thus the children of brothers are collateral relations, having different fathers, but a common grandfather. --Blackstone. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Collateral \Col*lat"er*al\, n. 1. A collateral relative. --Ayliffe. 2. Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: collateral adj 1: descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts" [syn: {indirect}, {oblique}] [ant: {lineal}] 2: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: {confirmative}, {confirming}, {confirmatory}, {corroborative}, {corroboratory}, {substantiating}, {substantiative}, {validating}, {validatory}, {verificatory}, {verifying}] 3: accompaniment to something else; "collateral target damage from a bombing run" 4: situated or running side by side "collateral ridges of mountains" n : a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
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