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t. & i. [A. S. fetian, gefetian, from fœt =a pace, a step; feccan =to lead, to take.] [FET, v.] IMG:content-1575.png:[blocks in formation] 6. To cause to come. "Draw forth the monsters of the aby profound, Or fetch the aerial eagle to the ground." Pope : E ay on Man , iii. 221, 222. *7. To bring back, to bring to. 1814 *fete-les, *fet-le , s . [A. S. fœtels .] A ve el. *fet-hok, s . [A corruption of FITHOWE (q. v.).] A polecat. fë-tich, fetish, s. [Fr. fétic he , from Port. "In smells we see their great and sudden effect in fetch feitiço (1) sorcery, (2) a wooden idol, from feitiço ông men again, when they swoon." - Bacon : Natural His kry. *8. To bring to any state, condition, or position. "At Rome any of those arts immediately thrives, under the encouragement of the prince, and may be fetched up to its perfection in ten or a dozen years, which is the work of an age or two in other countries." -Add is on : On Italy. *9. To perform, to make; applied to motion. "I'll fetch a turn about the garden, pitying The pangs of barred affections; though the king Hath charged you should not speak together." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, i. 1. *10. To reach, to arrive at; to attain or come to. "Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched The syrens' isle; a spleenle wind so stretched Her wings to waft us, and so urged our keel." Chapman: Homer's Ody ey, xii. *11. To reach in striking. "The conditions of weapons, and their improvements, are the fetching afar off; for that outruns the danger, as it is seen in ordnance and muskets."- Bacon . 12. To reach to in price; to obtain; to bring in. "All the precious gifts which nature had lavished on Aim he valued chiefly for what they would fetch ."- Ma saulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xiv. B. Intransitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To bring or carry things to a person. 2. To move and turn, to shift; as, to fetch about. "Like a shifted wind unto a sail, It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about." Shakesp.: King John, iv. 2. 3. To make inspirations in breathing. II. Naut.: To reach, to attain, to arrive. artificial, from Lat. fact it i as , from facio to make. Of the two spellings given Sir John Lubbock uses the former and Mr. Tylor the latter form.] 1. Lit .: Any material object whatsoever, supposed to be the ve el, vehicle, or instrument of a supernatural being, and the po e ion of which gives to the po e or or joint po e ors power over that being. Thus, a fetish differs from a talisman in that personal consciousne or power is attributed to it, from an idol because a tetich is not nece arily worshiped, and from a totem inasmuch as the power attributed or honor paid to an individual does not extend to the species. "An idol is indeed an object of worship, while on the contrary, a fetich is intended to bring the deity within the control of man."-Lubbock: Origin of Civilization (1882), p. 329. 2. Fig .: An object of devotion; an idol. fe-tich-işm, fë-ti-çişm, fetish-işm, subst. [Eng. fetich ; -ism .] 1. Lit .: Since the introduction of this word by De Bro es in the last century, various meanings have been affixed to it. It was first employed to denote the African worship of terrestrial objects; Comto used it in the sense of a general theory of primitive religion, in which external objects are animated by a life analogous to that of man; Tylor defines fetichism as the doctrine of spirits embodied in, attached to, or conveyed through certain material objects; and Sir John Lubbock ranks it as the second stage in the evolution of religious thought, but objects to cla it as a religion, since it does not nece arily involve the idea of worship, for the negro believes that by means of his fetich he can force his deities to comply with his desires. It is in reality only a form of witchcraft: an extension of the belief that the po e ion of any part of an "We shall fetch to windward of the lighthouse this enemy-the parings of the nails, a lock of the hair, tack."-Falconer. IMG:content-1576.png:[blocks in formation] or even a portion of his clothing-will give the po e or power over him. So the negro believes that the po e ion of a fetich representing a spirit makes that spirit his servant; he beats it if the requests he prefers are not attended to, and seriously believes he is thus inflicting suffering on the actual deity. A somewhat similar custom obtains among the Roman Catholics of the lower orders in the South of Europe, showing how widely popular "You speak this to fetch me in." -Shakesp.: Much Ado practice differs from the teaching of that church; IMG:content-1577.png:[blocks in formation] (a) To cause to come up or appear. (b) To stop suddenly; to come to a sudden stop. (c) To overtake; to come up with. "The hare laid himself down, and took a nap; for, says he, I can fetch up the tortoise when I please."L'Estrange. (7) To fetch a pump: To pour water into it so as to make it draw. (8) To fetch headway or sternway: Naut.: To move ahead or astern. (9) To fetch and carry for one: To be at one's beck and call. For the difference between to fetch and to bring , Bee BRING. *fetch-water, s. A drawer of water. "Spin the Greek wives webs of task, And their fetch - water be." Chapman: Homer's Iliad, vi. 495. fetch-er, s. [ Eng.fetch ; -er.] One who fetches. fête, s. [Fr., from O. Fr. feste ; Lat. festum=a feast, a festival.] A feast; a festival; a day of pleasure and entertainment; a holiday.