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ting a reciprocal relation. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.

In a correlative relation.

Quality of being correlative.

One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

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

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.

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

The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor. Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise. De Colange.

another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative. The electors in the district of a representative in Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are termed his constituents. Abbot. To appeal from the representatives to the constituents. Macaulay.…

ho, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative. South.

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

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.

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.