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Federal   /fˈɛdərəl/  /fˈɛdrəl/   Listen
Federal

adjective
1.
National; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units.  "Federal courts" , "The federal highway program" , "Federal property"
2.
Of or relating to the central government of a federation.
3.
Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War.  Synonym: Union.  "Federal forces" , "A Federal infantryman"
4.
Characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities.  "Federal governments often evolved out of confederations"
noun
1.
A member of the Union Army during the American Civil War.  Synonyms: Federal soldier, Union soldier.
2.
Any federal law-enforcement officer.  Synonyms: Fed, federal official.



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"Federal" Quotes from Famous Books



... a court-house on Federal Street, built in Webster's time, of hard cold granite in the Grecian fashion of the day, not of the white translucent marble with which the Greeks would have built it. Is it the court-house where Webster made his celebrated ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns
... Hun atrocity committed on Swiss territory was flashed to Berne, the Federal Assembly instantly suppressed it and went into secret session. Followed another session, in camera, of the Federal Council, whose seven members sat all night long envisaging war with haggard faces. And something worse than war when they remembered the Forbidden Forest and the phantom Canton ...
— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers
... and a man of the broadest interests. Of course the Boltwoods are too modest to speak of it, but he was chiefly instrumental in the establishment of the famous Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra. And his ancestors clear through—his father was a federal judge, and his mother's brother was a general in the Civil War, and afterwards an ambassador. So you can guess something of the position Claire holds in that fine, quiet, solid old Brooklyn set. Henry Ward Beecher himself was complimented at being asked to dine with the ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis
... tell you another thing. He was the first man to raise his voice for the abolition of the death penalty in the French convention. What more did he do? He was the first to suggest a federal constitution for the United States. He saw that the old articles of confederation were nothing; that they were ropes of water and chains of mist, and he said, "We want a federal constitution so that when you pass a law raising 5 percent you can make the states pay it." Let us ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll
... legislation, which, if passed by two-thirds vote, must be submitted to the lawmaking authority in every State participating. Each Government may either enact the terms into law; approve the principles, but modify them to local needs; leave the actual legislation in case of a Federal State to local legislatures; or reject the ...
— World's War Events, Volume III • Various


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