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Correlate   /kˈɔrəlˌeɪt/  /kˈɔrələt/   Listen
verb
Correlate  v. t.  To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena.



Correlate  v. i.  (past & past part. correlated; pres. part. correlating)  To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. "Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice."



noun
Correlate  n.  One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.






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... mythological separation of the primal pair is the castration of the father by the son. The motive is, according to all accounts, psychologically quite as comprehensible as the frequently substituted castration of the son by the father. The latter is psychologically the necessary correlate of the first form. The rivals, father and son, menace each other's sexual life. That the castration motive works out that way with father and son (son-in-law if the daughter takes the place of ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer

... records of defect and delinquency published by organizations with no bias in favour of Birth Control. The evidence is before us. It crowds in upon us from all sides. But prior to this new approach, no attempt had been made to correlate the effects of the blind and irresponsible play of the sexual instinct with its ...
— The Pivot of Civilization • Margaret Sanger

... processes of the two monkeys could scarcely be better exhibited than by the curves of learning which are presented in figure 18. The first, that for Sobke, is surprisingly regular; the second, that for Skirrl, is quite as surprisingly irregular. These results correlate perfectly with the steadiness and predictability of the former's responses and the irregularity and ...
— The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes - A Study of Ideational Behavior • Robert M. Yerkes

... utilise the ideas and emotions contained in the books which you have read or are reading; if the memory of these books does not quicken the perception of beauty, wherever you happen to be, does not help you to correlate the particular trifle with the universal, does not smooth out irritation and give dignity to sorrow—then you are, consciously or not, unworthy of your high vocation as a bookman. You may say that I am preaching a sermon. The fact is, I am. My mood is a severely ...
— LITERARY TASTE • ARNOLD BENNETT

... which is conceivably last in creation, on the immediate and temporary things or momentary occurrences of earth. In these sensations, as they accumulate into a kind of habitual or unreasoned knowledge or opinion, he discovers elements which have been active to {152} correlate the sensations, which have from the first exercised a governing influence upon the sensations, without which, indeed, no two sensations could be brought together to form anything one could name. These regulative, underlying, ...
— A Short History of Greek Philosophy • John Marshall


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