Word Origin and History for relative Expand. n. late 14c., a relative pronoun, from Old French relatif (13c.), from Late Latin relativus having reference or relation, from Latin relatus, past participle of referre to refer (see refer). Meaning person in the same family first recorded 1650s.
Kazimierz PuÅaski, English Casimir Pulaski (born March 6, 1745, Warsaw, Polandâdied October 11/15, 1779, aboard ship between Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.), Polish patriot and U.S. colonial army officer, hero of the Polish anti-Russian insurrection of 1768 (the Confederation of Bar) and of the American Revolution.
Dr. Alexander Lipski (1919-09), was Professor of History and Religious Studies from 1958 to 1984 at California State University, Long Beach, and a writer on topics of European and Indian history and religion. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Lipski wrote several books on some major religious figures, Thomas Merton and Asia: His Quest for Utopia, Essays on Carmelite Saints, and Life and Teaching of Sri Anandamayi Ma. He also edited the collection Bengal: East and West.