something relating to or respecting another.

in Music. See MODE.

RELATIVE Terms, in Logic, are words which imply relation; such as master and servant, husband and wife, &c.

In grammar, relative words are those which answer to some other word foregoing, called the antecedent; such are the relative pronouns qui, que, quod, &c., and in English, who, whom, which, &c. The word answering to these relatives is often underlined, as, "I know whom you mean;" for "I know the person whom you mean."