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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\ (k?r-r?l"?-t?v), a. [Cf. F.
     corr['e]latif.]
     Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
  
           Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and
           citizen, are correlative terms.          --Hume.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Correlative \Cor*rel"a*tive\, n.
     1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation,
        or is correlated, to some other person or thing. --Locke.
  
              Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives.
                                                    --Spelman.
  
     2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  correlative
       adj 1: mutually related [syn: {correlate}, {correlated}]
       2: expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation;
          "correlative conjunctions"
       n : either of two correlated variables [syn: {correlate}]

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