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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\ (k?r-r?l"?-t?v), a. [Cf. F.
corr['e]latif.]
Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and
citizen, are correlative terms. --Hume.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Correlative \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
correlative
adj 1: mutually related [syn: {correlate}, {correlated}]
2: (grammar) indicating a reciprocal or complementary relation;
"correlative conjunctions"
n : either of two correlated variables [syn: {correlate}]
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