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A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. "Felt the elation of triumph." Sir W. Scott.

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

Corresponding relation.

The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.

Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. Correlation of energy, the relation to one another of different forms of energy; -- usua…

The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure. [Written also crenellation.]

Conveyance. [Obs. or Archaic] In delation of sounds, the inclosure of them preserveth them. Bacon.

The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.

Mutual or reciprocal relation; correlation.

The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.

Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.

The act of impaneling a jury. [Obs.] [Written also panellation.] Wood.

The setting of one above another; preference. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two pieces of ice.

or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon.

Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke.

A relative; a relation. [Obs.]

The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.

That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in few words. Eph. iii. 3.

Accusation of one's self. [R.] Milman.