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xxvi. § 6. Religion, it has been well observed, is something rela tive to us; a system of commands and promises from God towards us. J. H. Newman , Parochial Sermons, i. 317. 3. Ingram ., referring to an antecedent; introducing a dependent clause that defines or describes or modifies something else in the sentence that is called the antecedent (because it usually, though by no means always, precedes the relative): thus, he who runs may read; he lay on the spot where he fell. Pronouns and pronominal adverbs are relative, such adverbs having also the value of conjunctions. A relative word used without an antecedent, as implying in itself its antecedent, is often called a compound relative : thus, who breaks pays; I saw where he fell. Relative words are always either demonstratives or interrogatives which have acquired secondarily the relative value and use. 4. Not intelligible except in connection with something else; signifying a relation, without stating what the correlate is: thus, father , bet ter, west , etc., are relative terms.