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al government (Polit. Science), the assumption by the governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their business and social concerns, upon the theory that they are incapable of managing their own afffairs.

The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity. The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership. Sir W. Raleigh.

aking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.

One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.

(Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.

One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.

, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.

To have relation or reference to something. These words pertain unto us at this time as they pertained to them at their time. Latimer.

The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; relevancy; suitableness. The fitness and pertinency of the apostle's discourse. Bentley.

The angle expressing phase relation.

The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al (#), a. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phe*nol"o*gist (#), n.

philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.

The relation of light to the movements of plants and their organs; the study of the phenomena of curvatures induced by the stimulus of light. --Pho`to*dy*nam"ic (#), Pho`to*dy*nam"ic*al (#), a.

The branch of science which treats of the relation of magnetism to light.

A combining form, denoting relation to, or dependence upon, natural causes, or the science of physics.

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry. R. Hunt.

, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey. -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.

as, as in concerts, etc. -- Diametral pitch (Gearing), the distance which bears the same relation to the pitch proper, or circular pitch, that the diameter of a circle bears to its circumference; it is sometimes described by the number expressing the quotient obtained by dividing the number of teeth in a wheel by the…

Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.

A combining form denoting relation to a side; specif., connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as, pleuroperitoneum.