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1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §56. m. 3 Þat þis said worde cloth..have relation and understondyng to hole clothes..and not to other clothes.

c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 130 (MED) Bot goodes of þe body..To þise forseide [sc. higher goods] haue relacioun [L. referantur].

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 353 Whan so ever we use in our tonge ‘the whiche’..makyng relacion to a substantyve or pronowne spoken of in the sentence next goynge before.

1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. ii. i. 47 (note) These words haue relation to the Earle of Charolois returne into Flanders.

1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. l. 2) 384 Some think the Apostle hath relation to this, in that 1 Cor. 15. 29.

1661 in R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1829) I. 179/1 Relation is made to the pains statuted against leasingmakers.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pref. As my design was a dictionary common or appellative, I have omitted all words which have relation to proper names.

1788 A. Hamilton Federalist Papers xxiii. 146 The government of the union must be impowered to pass all laws, and to make all regulations which have relation to them.

1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 237 Relation being made to the state of the law on one hand.

1873 A. Helps Some Talk about Animals & their Masters iii. 60 It had relation to horses.

1909 T. L. George Knowledge, Life & Reality xiv. 286 This important distinction between the moral judgment..and all judgments having relation to the connection of external events, is to be noted.

1953 F. J. Whitfield tr. L. Hjelmslev Prolegomena to Theory of Lang. 46 A correlation in one plane, which in this way has relation to a correlation in another plane of a language, we shall call a commutation.