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Federal

//ˈfɛdəɹəl// adj, name, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations. not-comparable

    "Yet the Romans, taking them [the Carthaginians] at an Advantage, vvhen they vvere in Streights; compell'd them, contrary to all Fœderal Right and Juſtice, by Nevv Articles, both to part with Sardinia, their Lavvful Territory, and alſo to pay them for the future, a Double Tribute."

  2. 2
    Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town. not-comparable

    "That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; [...]"

  3. 3
    Relating to covenantalism. not-comparable

    "federal theology"

Adjective
  1. 1
    national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units wordnet
  2. 2
    characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities wordnet
  3. 3
    being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War wordnet
  4. 4
    of or relating to the central government of a federation wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A locality in the Byron council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.
  2. 2
    A member of a Federal Party
  3. 3
    any federal law-enforcement officer wordnet
  4. 4
    A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.; A law-enforcement official of the FBI. US
  5. 5
    Alternative form of federal. US, alt-of, alternative
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  1. 6
    a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War wordnet
  2. 7
    A Union soldier in the American Civil War. US, historical
  3. 8
    Someone on the Union side.
  4. 9
    A supporter of federation.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French fédéral, from Latin stem foeder- of foedus (“covenant, league, treaty, alliance”).

Etymology 2

From French fédéral, from Latin stem foeder- of foedus (“covenant, league, treaty, alliance”).

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