[f. COR- + RELATE: see CORRELATE sb.]
1. intr. To have a mutual relation; to stand in correlation, be correlative (with or to another).
a. 1742. Fielding, J. Andrews, Pref. What Caricature is in painting, Burlesque is in writing; and, in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other.
1865. Grote, Plato, I. xii. 421. The real alone is knowable, correlating with knowledge. Ibid. (a. 1871), Eth. Fragm., iv. (1876), 91. Ethical obligation correlates and is indissolubly conjoined with ethical right.
b. trans. To be correlative to. rare.
1879. W. E. Hearn, Aryan Househ., v. § 3. 122. The right to the property correlated the duty to the Sacra.
2. To place in or bring into correlation; to establish or indicate the proper relation between (spec. geological formations, etc.).
1849. Murchison, Siluria, vii. 134. Mr. Symonds was … enabled to correlate these beds with their equivalents near Ludlow.
1881. J. Geikie, in Nature, 337. He correlates the interglacial beds of Mont Perrier with those of Dürnten.
3. pass. To have correlation, to be intimately or regularly connected or related (with, rarely to); spec. in Biol. of structures or characteristics in animals and plants (cf. CORRELATION 3).
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 95. Transmuting relations into entities, and interposing these entities between things correlated.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. 20. Parasitism … is often found to be correlated with … disappearance of structures.
1875. Poste, Gaius, II. Comm. (ed. 2), 160. Other rights … have no determinate subject … to which they are correlated.
