2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.
Correlatively
(Cor*rel"a*tive*ly), adv. In a correlative relation.
Correlativeness
(Cor*rel"a*tive*ness), n. Quality of being correlative.
Correligionist
(Cor`re*li"gion*ist) n. A co-religionist.
Correption
(Cor*rep"tion) n. [L. correptio, fr. corripere to seize.] Chiding; reproof; reproach. [Obs.]
Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.
Hammond.
Correspond
(Cor`re*spond") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Corresponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Corresponding.] [Pref.
cor- + respond: cf. f. correspondre.]
1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; — followed by with or
to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.
None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type.
J. A. Symonds.
2. To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; — followed by to.
Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to
them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther.
Locke.
3. To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and
receiving letters; — followed by with.
After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond
directly with the Pretender.
Macaulay.
Syn. — To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address.
Correspondence
(Cor`re*spond"ence) n. [Cf. F. correspondance.]
1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means
of letters.
Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state.
Bacon.
To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the
objects of the post office.
Macaulay.
2. The letters which pass between correspondents.
3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.
Correspondency
(Cor`re*spond"en*cy) n.; pl. Correspondencies Same as Correspondence, 3.
The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations.
S. Clarke.
