I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in
relation to its agreement with poetry.
Dryden.
4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as,
the relation of parents and children.
Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother,
first were known.
Milton.
5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a
kinsman or kinswoman.
For me . . . my relation does not care a rush.
Ld. Lytton.
6. (Law) (a) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an
act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of
fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the
act is said to take effect by relation. (b) The act of a relator at
whose instance a suit is begun. Wharton. Burrill.
Syn. -- Recital; rehearsal; narration; account; narrative; tale;
detail; description; kindred; kinship; consanguinity; affinity;
kinsman; kinswoman.
Re*la"tion*al (r?-l?"sh?n-al), a. 1. Having relation or kindred;
related.
We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems.
Tooke.