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Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.

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  1. a. Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
  2. n. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing.
  3. n. The antecedent of a pronoun.
  4. adj. mutually related
  5. adj. expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation
  6. n. either of two or more related or complementary variables
  7. Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume. 1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing. Locke. Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives. Spelman. 2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.
  8. Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, arecorrelative terms. Hume.
  9. j:100 s. mutually related s. expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation