related, ppl. a. (and n.)
(rɪˈleɪtɪd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
A. ppl. a.
1. Narrated, recited; † referred to. rare.
| 1604 T. Wright Passions v. § 4. 191 These twentie places..they may easily commit..to memorie, therefore I will remit this labour to the related authour. c 1611 Chapman Iliad x. 291 Base Dolon..neuer turnd to harme The Greeks, with their related drifts. |
2. a. Having relation to, or relationship with, something else. Also attrib. without const.
| 1662–3 Pepys Diary 6 Jan., Saw Twelfth-Night acted well, though it be but a silly play, and not related at all to the name or day. 1728 Woodward Fossils 33 The same Author treating..of a nearly related Species of Star-Stone.., tells us [etc.]. 1828 Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 159 These two classes of works stand curiously related with each other. 1846 Grove Corr. Phys. Forces 47 Electricity and magnetism are quantitatively related to them. 1864 Bowen Logic x. 336 Of the countless Relations thus brought to our notice, many are essential to an adequate knowledge of the related object. |
b. Having mutual relation or connexion.
| 1671 Milton Samson 786 Let weakness then with weakness come to parl So near related, or the same of kind. 1690 Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxv. §4 The ideas of relation may be the same in men, who have far different ideas of the things that are related. 1756 Burke Subl. & B. iii. xvii, The beauty both of shape and colouring are as nearly related as we can well suppose it possible. 1843 Mill Logic i. iii. §10 Whenever two things are said to be related there is some fact or series of facts into which they both enter. 1889 H. Parry in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 141/1 Even chords belonging to closely related keys are commonly used [etc.]. |
3. Of persons: Connected by blood or marriage (to another, or with each other).
| 1702 J. Purcell Cholick Ded., It was no sooner known that I had the Honour to be Related to..Your Grace, but [etc.]. 1772 Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) I. 319 He [John the Baptist]..had no personal knowledge of Jesus, though they were related. 1837 Thirlwall Greece xxxiii. IV. 299 A Persian of the highest rank, related to the royal family. 1845 M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 17 Persons related in the degree in which Merovig and Brunchilde were. |
† B. absol. as n. = relate n. 2. Obs.
| 1697 tr. Burgersdicius' Logic i. vii. 22 Relateds are said either to be Synonimous, or of the same Name; or Heteronymous, viz. of a diverse. |
Hence reˈlatedness, the state or condition of being related.
| 1865 Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. 114 Theories on the subject of the relatedness or non-relatedness of the Cosmos. 1895 Dublin Rev. Apr. 315 The process of amalgamation was favoured by relatedness of race and language. |
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Add: [2.] c. In Comb. with preceding noun.
| 1951 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. XLVI. 557/1 Needs could act as sensitizers, lowering the recognition thresholds for need-related stimuli. 1963 Punch 20 Mar. 398/2 There must be a wage-related contributory insurance system. 1970 Jrnl. Health, Physical Educ. & Recreation Mar. 46/1 Team handball..is often confused with a popular squash-related sport also dubbed handball. 1975 Petroleum Economist Aug. 288/1 The Department of Energy..expects that oil-related employment will increase as more companies enter the offshore market. 1986 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Jan. 43/1 It was also held to be the cause of the milder form of the illness known as AIDS-related complex. |