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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

fetialis

belonging to the

fetiales

, the Roman priests who sanctioned treaties and demanded satisfaction from the enemy before a formal declaration of war.]

Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace;

as,

fecial

law

Kent.

Adj.

[L. fecialis.] Pertaining to heralds and the denunciation of war to an enemy; as fecial law.