federation ist (federashonist)

[ lishment of a federal union among the parts of the British empire. We cannot wonder, therefore, if such a succe ful fed erationist as Sir John Mac donald anticipates in Austral asia, and even in South Africa, the same succe ful results as have been obtained in Canada. Fortnightly Rev. , N. S., XXXIX. 295. federative (fed'e-rā-tiv), a. [= F. fédérat if = Sp. Pg. federativo ; as federate + -ive.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of federation; uniting in a league; federal: as, a federative government; the federative principle. They... suggest to them leagues of perpetual amity, at the very time when the power to which our constitution has exclusively delegated the federative capacity of this kingdom may find it expedient to make war upon them. Burke, Rev. in France. An interesting inquiry here arises, whether the treaty making power in a federative union, like the United States, can alienate the domain of one of the states without its consent. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, § 99. federatively (fed'e-ra-tiv-li), adv. In a federative or federal manner; as a league or confed eracy. The periodical disorders to which federatively constituted states are liable. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVI. 107. fed i frag oust (fe-dif'ra-gus), a. [= Pg. It. fed i fra go, L. fædifragus, league-breaking, perfidious, We see it [adultery] plagued to teach us that the sin is of a greater latitude than some imagine it; unclean, foe difragous , perjured. Rev. T. Adams , Works, I. 250. fedityt, fedityt (fed'i-ti), n. [L. fœdita (t-)s, foulne , fœdus , foul, vile, infamous.] Vilene ; turpitude. For that hee seeing and perceiving what sodomitic all feditie and abomination, with other inconueniences, did spring incontinently upon his diabolic all doctrine, yet for all that would not give ouer his pestilent purpose. Foxe , Martyrs, p. 1063. A second may be the fædity and unnaturalne of the match. Bp. Hall , Cases of Conscience, iv. 10. Some fedities common among the Gnosticks, not fit to be named. Bp. Laving ton , Moravians Compared, p. 65. fedoa (fed'ō-ä), n. [NL.] In ornith .: (a) An old name (1) of the redshank, Totanus calidris ; (2) of the stone-plover, Edicnemus crepitans; (3) of a barge or godwit, some species of the genus Limosa. (b) The specific name of the (with which it is ult. identical), fied , fie , feu , var. of fieu , later fief , > E. fief (which does not seem to occur in ME.: see feoff ), feudum , property held in fee: see fief , feoff , feud2.] 1. An estate in land, of indefinite dura- tion, granted by and held of a superior lord, in whom the ultimate title resides, on condition of performing some service in return. See feud2. In this, which is its original sense, it implies the idea of reward for service or allegiance, and was used in contradistinction to estates in allodium , or entire prop- erty, which were generally small allotments held free of any obligation. The tenure of lands is altogether grounded on military laws, and held as a fee under princes. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 80. belonging to the owner and his heirs and a igns forever. In the latter case it is more specifically termed a fee simple. (See conditional fee ( b ), below.) The fee is the highest and most extensive interest that a person can have in lands. In this sense the king might have a fee, but not in the sense of def. 1. After the abolition of the feudal system the word continued to be used of real prop- erty; and although in the United States generally land is held in allodium , the private ownership, if subject to no paramount right except that of eminent domain vested in the State, is termed the fee . The word when unqualified may or may not mean an absolute or unqualified fee, or fee simple. I ryde aftyre this wilde fee ; My raches rynnys at my devyse. Thomas of Er eldoune (Child's Ballads, I. 100). IMG:content-1173.png:[blocks in formation] And in this state she [Mab] gallops night by night O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees . Shak., R. and J., i. 4. IMG:content-1174.png:[blocks in formation] She hath an usher, and a waiting gentlewoman, A page, a coachman; these are feed and feed , And yet, for all that, will be prating. He hired an auld horse, and fee'd an auld man, To carry her back to North umber land. IMG:content-1175.png:[blocks in formation] Base fee, a qualified fee; a freehold estate of inheritance to which a qualification is annexed, so that it must ter- minate whenever the qualification is at an end; more specifically, in the English law of settlements, the estate created by absolute alienation by a tenant in tail alone (see entail ), which, being made without the consent of the protector, does not bar remaindermen or reversioners, but only the grantor's own i ue, and hence is liable to be de- feated by the failure of such i ue. This way and that the feeble stem is driven, Weak to sustain the storms and injuries of heaven. Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 589. Forward she started with a happy cry, And laid the feeble infant in his arms. 3. Wanting in force exerted, whether of action or resistance; lacking in intensity, vividne , energy, or efficiency; faint: as, a feeble voice; a feeble light; feeble thinking; a feeble argu- ment or poem. Thowe servyst me with febulle chere; To hym thyn hart wolte fully enclyne. The curious kind of estate created by the conveyance in fee simple of a tenant in tail not in po e ion, without the concurrence of the owners of estates preceding his own, is called a base fee . F. Pollock , Land Laws, p. 108. Conditional fee. (a) Any fee granted upon condition. (b) A fee limited to particular heirs or a particular cla 2. Weakne ; feeblene . It is an on comely couple bi Cryst, as me think eth, To gyuen a zonge wenche to an olde feble . of heirs, under the common-law rule that, on the donee's once having such heirs, the estate became absolute for all purposes of alienation, on the ground that a condition once performed was at an end. (See entail .) To designate this kind of conditional fee at the common law, the more appropriate phrase is fee simple conditional . This evasion of the intent of donors to reserve a reversion on a failure of heirs was put an end to by a statute known as De Donis , which enacted that the will of the donor should be ob served, and that on the failure of heirs the property should revert to the donor. The estate of the donee under this statute was termed a fee tail . See tail2 , a. (c) Later, the term conditional fee was applied to the estate of a mort- gagee of land, under a mortgage in the usual form, which was regarded as vesting the fee in the mortgagee subject to its being divested by performance of the condition, namely payment. - Determinable fee, a fee determin- able by a condition or a conditional limitation; more specifically, a fee created by a limitation to the grantee and his heirs till the happening of a future event which may or may not happen, as a gift to A and his heirs, and if A dies without i ue, then to another. - Fee simple, fee simple absolute, a fee that is not qualified. See def. 2.- Fee tail. See conditional fee (b). Great fee, the holding of a tenant of the crown. 3. Same as foible , 1. feeblet (fē'bl), v . [ feblen , make feeble, become feeble, febleier , febloier (also afebleier , afebloier ), make feeble, feble , fee- ble: see feeble , a . Cf. enfeeble.] I. trans. To weaken; enfeeble. Shall that victorious hand be feebled here, That in your chambers gave you chastisement? Shak., K. John, v. 2. "Tis true, you are old and feebled ; Would you were young again, and in full vigour! Fletcher, Wild goose Chase, i. 3. Moche folk of here fon fel algate newe, & here men feebled fast & faileden of here mete. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2659. All fail it there forse, feblit there herttes, The batell on backe was borne to the se. In his demain as of fee. See demain . - Limited fee, a determinable fee; more specifically, a fee determinable by a conditional limitation. - Plowman's fee, peasant tenure; the custom by which lands descended to all the sons of the tenant in equal shares, with, however, some privilege or birthright in favor of the elder or younger son: a rule of descent which under the feudal system gave way to primogeniture. The strict English primogeniture as applied to the rus- tic holdings, sometimes called fiefs de roturier or “ plough- man's fee. Encyc. Brit ., XIX. 735. Qualified fee, a base fee; a freehold estate of inheritance to which a qualification is annexed, so that it must term i- nate whenever the qualification is at an end; more spe- cifically, the estate created by a limitation to the grantee and the heirs of an ancestor of his in the paternal line whose heir he also is, as a gift to B and the heirs of A, his father. feeble-mindedne (fe'bl-minded-nes), n. The state of being feeble-minded. feeblene (fe'bl-nes), n. [ febelnes , fe- bulne e , feble , febul , feeble, + -ne .] The quality or condition of being feeble, in any sense of that word; weakne . Our Savior Crist, beryng hys Crost, for very febylne e fell ther to the grounde vnder net he Cro e. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 39. feeable (fe'a-bl), a . [Early mod. E. also feable; fee + -able .] Capable of being feed; capable of being hired or bribed. feeble (fē'bl), a . and n . [ feble , rarely fieble , febul , feble , OF. feble , feuble , foible (> E. foible ), etc.; earlier OF. flebe , fleuble , floily; faintly; without strength. ble , etc., F. faible = Pr. feble , fible , freble = Sp. feble = Pg. febre = It. fievole , weak, feeble, feebly The fact is, that supernatural beings, as long as they are considered merely with reference to their own nature, excite our feelings very feebly. Macaulay, Dante. feed (fed), v.; pret. and pp. fed, ppr. feeding. [ He made lame to lepe and zaue ligte to blynde, And fedde with two fi hes and with fyue loues Sore afyngred folke mo than fyue thousande. Piers Plowman (B), xix. 122. Rom. xii. 20. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Also while men are fed with wine and bread, They shall be fed with sorrow at his hand. Swinburne , Two Dreams. 2. To supply; fill the requirements of; furnish material to for consumption, use, or means of operation; provide with whatever is nece ary to the development, maintenance, or working of: as, canals are fed by streams and ponds; to feed a fire, a steam-engine, or a threshing machine; to feed a lathe (by applying to the chisel the object to be turned); vanity is fed by flattery. 2169 4. A certain allowance of provender given: as, a feed of corn or oats. horses get one feed of steamed food From the middle of October till the end of May, my daily. Quoted in Encyc. Brit., I. 386. 5. In mech.: ( a ) The motion or advance of any material which is being fed to a machine, as of cloth to the needle of a sewing-machine. (b) The material upon which a machine operates, as the grain running into a grinding-mill. (c) The advance of a cutting-tool, as the cutter of a planer, or the chisel of a lathe, upon or into the material to be cut.-6. [Var. of food.] Same as food1, n., 4. Cum heir, cum heir, ye freely feed , And lay your head low on my knee. Kempion (Child's Ballads, I. 188). 7. The amount of water needed in a canal-lock to allow of the pa age of a boat.-8. In stone sawing, sand and water employed to a ist the saw-blade in cutting. To prevent the sand and water, called the feed , from flowing out between the stones, the interval is filled up with straw rammed in firmly between the two blocks. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 86. Differential feed, a device for securing a slow and powerful regular forward movement of a tool. Syn. 1. Feed , pecially animals kept for work or fattening for the market; food for human beings and the smaller animals, household pets, etc.; fodder , dry or green feed for animals, but I envy not thy glory, not pasturage; provender , dry feed. Forage is rarely used Shak ., Rich. III., iv. 1. except for fodder furnished for horses in an army, gen Food , Fodder , Provender , Forage. Feed for animals, es To feed my humour. Whatever was created needs To be sustain'd and fed ; of elements The gro er feeds the purer, earth the sea, Earth and the sea feed air. Milton , P. L., v. 415. The small hand led To where a woman, gentle-eyed, Her distaff fed . Whittier, Hermit of the Thebaid. For dyeing, the skins [glove-kid] are first washed out in warm water to free them from superfluous alum, and then again fed with yolk of eggs and salt. Encyc. Brit ., XIV. 389. 3. To graze; cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle. Once in three years feed your mowing lands. Mortimer, Husbandry. The portion [of turnip-crop) to be fed off by sheep must nece arily be treated in a different manner. Encyc . Brit ., I. 367. 4. To supply for food, consumption, or operation: as, to feed out beets to cattle; to feed water to an engine; to feed work (something to be operated on) to a lathe or other machine. In England, and in some parts of this country, turnips are fed to sheep in the field. Amer . Cyc ., XVI. 75. 51. To entertain; amuse.=Syn. 1. To nourish, cherish, sustain, support. - 2. To contribute to. II. in trans. 1. To take food; eat. [Now rarely used of persons except in contempt or disparagement.] IMG:content-1176.png:[blocks in formation] The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Words worth, Written in March. 2. To subsist; use something for sustenance or support: with on or upon. To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow. Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, L. 900. Upon the earth's increase why shouldst thou feed , Unle the earth with thy increase be fed? Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 169. 3. To grow fat. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] feed (fed), n. [ More dangerous Than baits to fish, or honey-stalks to sheep; When as the one is wounded with the bait, The other rotted with delicious feed. erally by foraging. Food is also a general word for that which supplies nourishment to any organized body. And homele near a you sand homes I stood, And near a you sand tables pined and wanted food . Words worth, Guilt and Sorrow. The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of their cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before; the lo of their sheep and swine by wolves,... are the other disasters enumerated by the historian. Emerson, Hist. Discourse at Concord. Tita . Say, sweet love, what thou desir'st to eat. Bot . Truly, a peck of provender : I could munch your good dry oats. Shak., M. N. D., iv. 1. All oats, Indian corn, or rather forage that wagons or horses bring to the camp,. is to be taken for the use of the enemy. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 216.