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The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.

e language of any one quoted without change in its form; as, he said "I can not come;" -- correlative to indirect discourse, in which there is change of form; as, he said that he could not come. They are often called respectively by their Latin names, oratio directa, and oratio obliqua. -- Direct evidence (Law), evide…

A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor. [Written also disseisee.]

The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.

done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.

s two, or more, coördinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or. Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth. 1 Kings xviii. 27. Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triple alternative; such as, We must either…

n electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.

pacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension. The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension. Sir W. Hamilton. The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objec…

The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law.

The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity. J. S. Mill.

e 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 goo…

An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.

A male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; -- the correlative of bridesmaid.

The person to whom a guaranty is made; -- the correlative of guarantor.

A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife. The husband and wife are one person in law. Blackstone.

One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit. [R.] Boyle.

tually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See Imply.

Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.