Relation /(r?-l?"sh?n)/

Re·la·tion

Relation

n.
  1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
    oet's relation doth well figure them.
  2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.
    Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things, or any comparison which is made by the mind, is a relation.
  3. Reference; respect; regard.
    I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry.
  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.
  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. 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. (Law)