Federal
['fed(ə)r(ə)l] or ['fɛdərəl]
Definition
(noun.) any federal law-enforcement officer.
(noun.) a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
(adj.) national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units; 'the Federal Bureau of Investigation'; 'federal courts'; 'the federal highway program'; 'federal property' .
(adj.) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities; 'a federal system like that of the United States'; 'federal governments often evolved out of confederations' .
(adj.) of or relating to the central government of a federation; 'a federal district is one set aside as the seat of the national government' .
Checker: Presley--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives.
(a.) Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.
(a.) Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer.
(a.) Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist.
(n.) See Federalist.
Typist: Mabel
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Confederate.
Edited by Gail
Definition
adj. pertaining to or consisting of a treaty or covenant: confederated founded upon mutual agreement: of a union or government in which several states while independent in home affairs combine for national or general purposes as in the United States (in the American Civil War Federal was the name applied to the states of the North which defended the Union against the Confederate separatists of the South).—n. a supporter of federation: a Unionist soldier in the American Civil War.—n. Fed′eracy.—v.t. Fed′eralise.—ns. Fed′eralism the principles or cause maintained by federalists; Fed′eralist a supporter of a federal constitution or union; Fed′erary (Shak.) a confederate.—adj. Fed′erāte united by league: confederated.—n. Federā′tion the act of uniting in league: a federal union.—adj. Fed′erātive united in league.—Federal (or Covenant) theology that first worked out by Cocceius (1603-69) based on the idea of two covenants between God and man—of Works and of Grace (see Covenant).
Checker: Willa
Examples
- With federal, state, and municipal authorities in existence, with courts, district attorneys, police all operating, they create another arm of prosecution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- About fifteen hundred of the best operators in the country were at the front on the Federal side alone, and several hundred more had enlisted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Our own Federal Constitution is a striking example of this machine conception of government. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There are almost a hundred recommendations to various authorities--Federal, State, county, city, police, educational and others. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Here a patent having once been sustained, say, in Boston, may have to be litigated all over again in New York, and again in Philadelphia, and so on for all the Federal circuits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The lamp patent was sustained in the New York Federal Court. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He brought out a map of Virginia on which he had evidently marked every position occupied by the Federal and Confederate armies up to that time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To secure uniformity in the several Federal circuits and correct errors, it has been proposed to establish a central court of patent appeals in Washington. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- An essential condition of the peace he sought through the overthrow of German imperialism was, he declared, to be this federal organ. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was the capital of the State of New York from 1784 to 1797, and from 1785 to 1790 it was the seat of the Federal Government. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification number is 64-6221541. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was to be a federal and not a confederate government. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A few points in Louisiana not remote from the river were held by the Federal troops, as was also the mouth of the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The federal system established in 1789 had to fight the secessionist efforts of the confederated slave-holding states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Morse applied for an injunction, and on appeal the Federal Supreme Court decided in his favor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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