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/rɪlˈeɪt/ /rilˈeɪt/ Listen

verb

Relate v. t. (past & past part. related; pres. part. relating)

To bring back; to restore. (Obs.) " Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate."

To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. (Obs. or R.)

To recount; to narrate; to tell over. "This heavy act with heavy heart relate."

To ally by connection or kindred.

To relate one's self, to vent thoughts in words. (R.)

Synonyms: To tell; recite; narrate; recount; rehearse; report; detail; describe.

Relate v. i.

To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; with to. "All negative or privative words relate positive ideas."

To make reference; to take account. (R. & Obs.) "Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account."

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— Home Rule - Second Edition • Harold Spender

... Now the others started towards the herd. Emboldened by their courage, and thinking that perhaps they held the charm that would make a close approach to the herd possible, I accompanied them. Strange to relate it was but a few minutes till we were all getting back to the canoes, and we did not again attempt to brave their battle front. We and the caribou stood watching each other for some time. Then the caribou began to run from either ...

— A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador • Mina Benson Hubbard (Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior)

... his eyes, usually half-closed, now opened to their full extent, all aglow with exquisite tenderness. Jeanne relinquished one of her hands to him, while she gave the other to Monsieur Rambaud. Both held her and gazed at her with troubled looks. Helene was obliged to relate the story of her illness, and the Abbe was on the point of quarrelling with her for not having warned him of it. And then they each questioned her. "The attack was quite over now? She had not had another, had she?" The mother ...

— A Love Episode • Emile Zola

... have thus in general touched upon, will account to you why I could not more particularly relate what passed in this evening's conversation: which, as may be gathered from what I have written, abounded with approbatory ...

— Clarissa, Volume 4 (of 9) - History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson

... pines, threading the watercourse to the foot of Kearsarge. These are the pines that puzzle the local botanist, not easily determined, and unrelated to other conifers of the Sierra slope; the same pines of which the Indians relate a legend mixed of brotherliness and the retribution of God. Once the pines possessed the field, as the worn stumps of them along the streamside show, and it would seem their secret purpose to regain their old footing. Now and then some seedling escapes the devastating sheep a rod or two down-stream. ...

— The Land of Little Rain • Mary Austin

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