Correlative

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives.


                                                    --Spelman.
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     2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "correlative":
     accessory, accompanying, affinitive, agnate, akin, allied,
     analogical, analogous, appertaining, associated, associative,
     attendant, attending, cognate, coincident, collatable, collateral,
     combined, commensurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative,
     concomitant, concurrent, congeneric, congenerous, congenial,
     conjoint, connate, connatural, connected, connective, conspecific,
     corelated, corelational, corelative, correlated, correlational,
     coupled, en rapport, enate, fellow, joined, joint, linking,
     matchable, much at one, mutual, paired, parallel, pertaining,
     pertinent, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, referable,
     referring, relating, relational, relative, similar, simultaneous,
     sympathetic, twin
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CORRELATIVE. This term is used to designate those things, one of which 
  cannot exist without another; for example, father and child; mountain and 
  valley, &c. Law, obligation, right, and duty, are therefore correlative to 
  each other.