collateraladj.n.
/kəˈlatərəl/ A. adj.
1. † c. = Lateral, side-. Obsolete.† f. collateral winds: those blowing from points of the compass intermediate to the cardinal points. So collateral points, collateral quarters. Obsolete.
a. Situated or placed side by side (with one another); running side by side, parallel.In Geometry and Crystallography applied to two faces having a common edge.
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the world > space > relative position > state or position of being parallel > [adjective]
concurrent1495
gemew1523
collaterala1527
parallelc1550
equidistant1570
lateral1598
non-concurring1705
a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. Cv Betwixte the twoo collaterall lines.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 238 Collateral is sayde of one that is nye a nother by the tone syde of hym.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxvii. 40 Parted into many collaterall or side braunches.
1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Collaterall, on the other side, ouer against, as two lines drawne equally distant one from another.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 87 In his bright radience and colaterall light, Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 86 From his radiant Seat he rose Of high collateral glorie. View more context for this quotation
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) vi. §10. 108 Leave some Collateral shoots to attract the Sap.
1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §85. 96 We neither see more Visible Points, nor are the Collateral Points more Distinct.
1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 114 The Rocky mountains..occur..singly or in groups, and occasionally in collateral ridges.
b. Const. to.
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1834 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 84/1 We approached London by rural lanes and roads..collateral to the main ones.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adjective] > situated at the side
by1330
sideling?a1425
collateral1649
sideward1863
1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. i. 50 Collaterall Nods, such as wee use when the partyes to whom we make the signe are on one side of us.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 195 From this canal a collateral cut to Naas is completed.
d. Phys. collateral arteries: ‘a term applied to branches of arteries which follow more or less the course of the parent vessel’. collateral circulation: ‘circulation carried on through lateral or secondary channels after stoppage or obstruction in the main vessels’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). So collateral fluxion, collateral hyperaemia, etc.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > artery > [noun] > types of
preparing vessela1618
pulmonary artery1679
arteriole1685
mammary1697
omphalomesenteric1728
collateral arteriesa1788
perforator1824
vas vasorum1848
comes1875
synangium1875
loop-artery1899
a1788 P. Pott Chirurg. Wks. III. 377 Collateral branches of sufficient size to carry on the circulation.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 228 The adequateness of the collateral arteries for the supply of the limb.
1828 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 689 The Dorsal Artery of the Thumb..terminates by anastomising with its external collateral artery.
1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 26 The ‘collateral circulation’..set up when a main artery is tied.
e. Botany. Side by side. collateral bundle n. a fibro-vascular bundle in which the wood- and bast-elements (xylem and phloem) are placed side by side.
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1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 89 Sometimes the multiplication [of organs] is collateral, a pair of stamens, for example, standing in place of one.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 326 Euphorbiaceæ..Ovules 1–2, collateral.
1880 W. R. McNab Bot.: Outl. Morphol. & Physiol. ii. 45 Many monocotyledons and dicotyledons have collateral bundles.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > compass > card of > point(s) of compass > intermediate point(s)
collateral points1398
cross-point1709
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from intermediate points
collateral windsc1550
lateral1578
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xi. iii. (Tollem, MS.) Wyndes beþ twelue; foure þerof ben clepid cardinales, chef wyndes, and viii collaterales, side wyndes.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 48 Ther is iiij callit vyndis cardinal and the tothir iiij, ar callit vyndis collateral.
1664 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 104 Not only from the West, and other principal, but from the collateral Regions of the Heaven also.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Collateral Winds, those blowing from Collateral Points.
2. † b. Ranking side by side with, co-ordinate. Obsolete.
a. figurative. Accompanying, attendant, concomitant.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [adjective]
collateral1377
assistant1485
coincident1567
accompanying1600
concomitant1608
comitant1614
belonginga1616
concomitaneous1661
adjoint1727
associative1812
attended1846
herewith1917
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 297 A collateral conforte crystes owne ȝifte.
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) viii. xii. 183 b Who that did unright By oppression or by collateral wrong.
1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 189 That cannot be discerned by sight, but by a colaterall proofe, the measuring of them.
1644 J. Milton in tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce To Parl. sig. B2v Not as a lerner, but as a collateral teacher.
1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. iii. 52 We mistake, as is usual, a collateral effect for a cause.
1870 Echo 12 Nov. Anyone who studies these reports in the light of collateral knowledge of prisons.
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1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 238 The father and the holy goste were with oure lorde..and therfore they are called hys collateral felowes.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 71 The King..shall ridde his Kingdome of a strong sequester'd, and collateral power.
1650 Exerc. conc. Vsvrp. Power 5 A King, an House of Peers, and an House of Commons sitting in a collaterall, or coordinate rank.
1656 J. Trapp Comm. Matt. xvi. 24 That [Peter] might not be made collateral, a very copesmate, to Christ himself.
c. Parallel in time, order, tenor, or development; corresponding.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [adjective]
redditivec1525
correlative1530
reciprocate?1532
responsive1604
reciprocal1617
collateral1659
equivalenta1661
responding1670
co-relative1761
relative1849
correlate1850
correlated1859
complementary1860
obverse1875
double of1876
complemental1882–3
dual1947
intercorrelational1970
1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 33 Neither doth the collateral place..make other use of this story.
a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) iii. 292 The two collateral Empires of the Babylonians and Medes.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pref. When the radical idea branches out into Parallel ramifications, how can a Consecutive series be formed of senses in their nature collateral?
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 415 I should therefore from the collateral histories imagine, etc.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 601 The lower part of a rainbow appears broader than the upper part..the breadth of the moon and of the rainbow in this case are doubtless collateral phenomena.
3.
a. Lying aside from the main subject, line of action, issue, purpose, etc.; side-; subordinate, indirect.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective] > subordinate
collateralc1374
subalternate?a1425
subalternal1483
subaltern1578
subordinate1620
subordinatinga1635
subordinated1640
subalternated1659
subordinant1678
second line1797
subdominant1826
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [adjective]
collateralc1374
ambagious?1532
indirect1584
circular1617
squint1619
squinting1648
sidelong1654
circumferentiala1661
circuitous1664
side wind1672
side-winded1696
roundabout1701
side-handed1828
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 262 For to tellen forth in especial..And levyn al other thinges collateral.
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike ii. iii. f. 89v Little grand mootemen, who..for every collaterall trifle run over all the 633 titles of Brookes abridgement.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 204 If by direct, or by colaturall hand They find vs toucht. View more context for this quotation
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) To Rdr. 4 Collateral things, not being the principal Subject of the Discourse.
1783 E. Burke Speech Fox's E. India Bill in Wks. (1815) IV. 7 Though there are no direct, yet there are various collateral objections made.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. ix. 347 One of the collateral causes of the Norman Conquest.
b. Const. to.
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1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxviii. §5. 644 In pursuing of actions collaterall to the Historie.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 106 This..being but collateral to my work of Examining the Preface.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 75 For any thing, which in the late discussion has appeared, the war is entirely collateral to the state of Jacobinism.
4.
a. Descended from the same stock, but in a different line; pertaining to those so descended. Opposed to lineal. collateral ancestor: a brother or sister of a parent, grandparent, or other lineal ancestor.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [adjective] > collaterally
collateralc1425
transversal1595
transverse1614
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > collateral ancestor
collateral ancestor1530
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > person from whom inheritance derived
ancestorc1503
collateral ancestor1530
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. Prol. 14 Qwhen þe succession lynealle Endit, þe collateralle Ressawit..þe Crowne.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 56 He..Yat..cummyn war of ye neyst male And in branch collaterale.
1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xlvi. f. cxxv A warrantye of an auncestre colaterall to the dysseasye.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 380 b If lands had beene giuen to the husband and wife and their heires, and the husband had made a Feoffement to another, to whom a Collaterall Ancester of the wife had released and died.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 148 King Edward dying Childlesse..left the Land at a Losse for an Heir in a direct Line, & opened a Door to the Ambition of Collaterall Pretenders.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 81 The heirs of a man's body, by which only his lineal descendants were admitted, in exclusion of collateral heirs.
1840 R. H. Barham Spectre of Tappington in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 7 The property passed..to a collateral branch of the family.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde To Rdr. sig. B4 Another rabble, of the same house and famelie, in the collaterall line of leudnes.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 32 Languages..allied by collateral affinities.
5. Law. In various technical phrases: collateral assurance, assurance made over and above the principal deed; collateral security, any property or right of action, given as additional to the obligation of a contract or the like; so collateral bond, collateral surety; collateral fact, a fact not considered relevant to the matter in dispute in an action; collateral issue, where a criminal convict pleads any matter allowed by law, in bar of execution, as pregnancy, pardon, diversity of person, etc., whereon collateral issue is taken, and tried by a jury instanter (Wharton); collateral warranty: see quot.
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society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > [noun] > additional bond
collateral bond1528
society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > requiring or giving legal security > [noun] > legal security > additional security on borrowing
collateral assurance1528
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. liiii Suche warranty is called collaterall warranty. In so moche that he that made the warranty is collaterall to the tytle of the tenementes.
1534 Act 26 Hen. VIII c. 3 §21 Any colaterall writing or suertie made for such pension.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Collateral bonde, satisdatio.
1570 Act 13 Eliz. c. 8 §3 Contracts and Assurances, collateral or other.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Q1v/1 To bee subject to the feeding of the Kings Deere, is collateral to the soyle within the Forest.
1623 in New Shakspere Soc. Trans. (1885) 505 Collaterall Covenauntes bondes and assurances so to bee made.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 106 As incorporeal hereditaments are in their nature collateral to, and issue out of, lands and houses, their owner hath no property..or demesne, in the thing itself, but hath only something derived out of it.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 301 Collateral warranty..a younger brother released to his father's disseisor, with warranty, this was collateral to the elder brother.
a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) iii. ii, in Wks. (1821) II. 76 With a few pair of point ruffles, as a collateral security.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 84 The foreign inspectorate..on which England and France had insisted as a collateral security.
B. n.† 1. A person associated with another in some office or function; a colleague, an assessor. Obsolete.† 2. An equal in rank; a rival. Obsolete.† 3. A contemporary. Obsolete. rare.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun] > colleague or fellow-worker
fellowOE
consort1419
confrerec1425
companionc1523
labour-fellow1526
yokefellow1526
colleaguea1533
associate1533
adjunct1554
yokemate1567
colleagen1579
co-agenta1600
co-operatora1600
collateralc1600
co-workman1619
co-workera1643
partner1660
co-operatrix1674
co-agitator1683
co-adjoint1689
adjoint1738
side-partner1845
co-operatress1865
maugh1868
with-worker1884
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 104 Collaterallis to him wes the bischopis of Dunkell and Dunblane, with thair rockattis and huidis.
a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) iv. 197 The Prince was received by the Archbishop of St. Andrews, whose Collaterals were the Bishops of Dunkeld, Dumblane, and Ross.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 140 Canons are Collaterals unto Bishops, as Cardinals are to the Popes.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > one's social equal(s)
fellowc1225
compeera1400
evenhead?a1400
checkmate?1504
comparec1540
mate1563
collateral1623
assessor1667
grade1827
Jones1879
peer1940
1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) vii. x. 249/2 The fifteenth king..besides fiue other collateralls, that by intrusion put on the Crowne.
1660 J. Milton Brief Notes Serm. 4 Your conceited Sanctuary..degrades God to a Cherub, and raises your King to be his collateral in place.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > contemporary
contemporany?a1475
contemporant1577
time-fellow1577
age mate1582
contemporana1600
coeval1605
coetane1610
collateral1614
contemporary1614
concurrent1622
coequal1631
contemporanean1633
coetanean1636
contemporista1641
temporary1649
synchronist1716
yealing1728
fellow1844
age-fellow1845
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxvi. §5. 608 Most of the Kings, haue their beginnings placed in some other yeare of their collateralls than the Scriptures haue determined.
4. An accompanying circumstance. rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > accompanying circumstance
adherency1608
adherenta1610
concomitant1621
concomitancy1631
collateral1641
concomitance1652
comitant1654
adhesion1827
collateralism1834
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. C4v I hope these are collateralls and of noe danger.
1819 J. Lawrence in Monthly Mag. 47 128 What can we say of time and space, but that they are the synonyms or collaterals of existence.
5.
a. A collateral kinsman.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] > collateral relative
collateral1691
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 699 All collaterals, viz. Uncles, Aunts, Brothers and Sisters.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. vii. 281 Collaterals of mature age or distinguished merit were often preferred to those..nearer the throne in direct descent.
1811 Morritt Let. 28 Dec. in Lockhart Scott A greedy collateral who inherited the estate.
b. A collateral line of descent. rare.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent > collateral line
collaterala1683
a1683 A. Sidney Disc. Govt. (1698) i. §xiv. 33 All the Sons of Shem and Japhet, and their Descendents in the Collaterals, were to be preferred before him [sc. Ham].
6. Anything given as collateral security. Originally U.S.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > collateral security
fond1677
collateral1832
cover1883
the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > [noun] > a pledge or security > pledge deposit
borrowa975
weda1122
security1444
pawn1479
pledge1490
collateral1887
1832 Reg. Deb. Congress U.S. App. 62/ 2 May 13 15 days $20,000 collateral.
1847 Trippings of Tom Pepper I. 143 I must have a thousand dollars. Here, take the collateral, and give me the money.
1869 Congr. Globe 25 Mar. 273/2 When we want money to move our wheat, we understand we can go down there and borrow it. If we have got the collaterals to put up, we get it.
1875 J. G. Holland Sevenoaks xxv. 359 He had already used these as collaterals, in the borrowing of small sums at short time.
1887 Fall River Advance 23 Apr. 1/2 Russia wants to borrow 100,000,000 roubles. Let the Czar send along his collaterals.
a1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny viii. 141 I'm no judge of collateral in bunches.
1932 ‘D. Frome’ By-pass Murder xxviii. 248 He did not want, for professional reasons, to put up any of his own collateral.
1958 Economist 22 Nov. 17/1 Automobiles are frequently accepted as collateral when personal loans are extended for their purchase.
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