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(Psychol.) Not subject to conscious attention; having an indefinite, relatively passive, conscious being; characteristic of the "fringe" or "margin" of consciousness.

The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.

The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person. Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied. Milton.

That, introducing or expressing a result or consequence, after the correlatives so and such. [Obs.] I can place thee in such abject state, as help shall never find thee. Rowe. So as, so that. [Obs.] The relations are so uncertain as they require a great deal of examination. Bacon.

An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant. Ayliffe.

An instrument for comparing the relative amount of the light of stars.

The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.

of its fifth above, or dominant, its fifth below (fourth above), or subdominant, and its relative minor or major.

Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.

The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

ding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. -- Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.

tersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique. -- Axes of coördinates in space, the three straight lines in which the coördinate planes intersect each other. -- Axis of a balance, that line about which it turns. -- A…

To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate. Balance the good and evil of things. L'Estrange.

Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt. Basic salt (Chem.), a salt formed from a base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative or acid element or radical.

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

egalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.

Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves. Keats.

A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively longer.