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A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.

One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor. Creditors have better memories than debtors. Franklin.

Guilty of crime or sin. The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. Rogers.

al of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.

s estates. -- Dean of peculiars, a dean holding a preferment which has some peculiarity relative to spiritual superiors and the jurisdiction exercised in it. [Eng.] -- Rural dean, one having, under the bishop, the especial care and inspection of the clergy within certain parishes or districts of the diocese.…

To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.

One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor. Blackstone.

One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor. [I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first. Shak. In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. Mitford. Debtors for our lives to you. Tennyson.

Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side.

One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator.

by weight; and, if two or more elements form more than one compound with each other, the relative proportions of each are fixed. Compare Law of multiple proportions, under Multiple.

The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing.

One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries. Shak. The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people.J.S. Mill.

One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.

One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant. Our first parents and their descendants. Hale. The descendant of so many kings and emperors. Burke.

One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.

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

s of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension.

nguage 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), evidence…

Tending to disperse. Dispersive power (Opt.), the relative effect of a material in separating the different rays of light by refraction, as when the substance is formed into a prism. -- Dis*pers"ive*ness, n.