The act of relating or telling; also, that
which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the
relation of historical events.
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.
Reference; respect; regard.
Connection by consanguinity or affinity;
kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and
children.
A person connected by cosanguinity or
affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.
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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