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fœderative

fœderative

See also: föderative

English

Adjective

fœderative (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of federative.
    • 1795, The Monthly Review, Volume XVI., page #214:
      [] or whether with reſpect to the conſquences that it produced from the extinction of a party, which, if it did not aim at overturning the French revolution, would moſt certainly, had Lyons been able to beat off the beſieging army, have ſeparated the ſouth from the north of France, and have eſtablished in it a fœderative republic.