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ctual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.

Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with. Shak.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tympanum; as in tympanohyal, tympano-Eustachian.

The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness. [R.] Glanvill.

Beyond power; transcending authority; -- a phrase used frequently in relation to acts or enactments by corporations in excess of their chartered or statutory rights.

on the signification beyond, on the other side, chiefly when joined with words expressing relations of place; as, ultramarine, ultramontane, ultramundane, ultratropical, etc. In other relations it has the sense of excessively, exceedingly, beyond what is common, natural, right, or proper; as, ultraconservative; ultrade…

Not allied; having no ally; having no connection or relation; as, unallied species or genera.

plied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.

ceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or relations.

Not having entered into relationship with God through the appointed means of grace; also, not promised or assured by the divine promises or conditions; as, uncovenanted mercies.

Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under…

To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. [Obs.] Wyclif.

discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason. I use the term understanding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in…

Not formed; not arranged into regular shape, order, or relations; shapeless; amorphous.

The science of the universe, and the relations which it involves.

Having no moral perception, quality, or relation; involving no idea of morality; -- distinguished from both moral and immoral. -- Un`mo*ral"i*ty, n.

Being without symmetry of chemical structure or relation; as, an unsymmetrical carbon atom. Unsymmetrical carbon atom (Chem.), one which is united at once to four different atoms or radicals. This condition usually occasions physical isomerism, with the attendant action on polarized light.

- (connection with, or relation to, the uterus; as in utro- ovarian.

A combining form (also used adjectively) indicating derivation from, or relation to, valerian or some of its products, as valeric acid; as in valerolactone, a colorless oily liquid produced as the anhydride of an hydroxy valeric acid.

Esteem; regard. Dryden. My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great Bp. Burnet.