fetial

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A member of the Roman college of priests who acted as representatives in disputes with foreign nations.

   “Nicomachus, as explained in the next line, was already known to the Elean priests or fetials, or whatever we are to call them, as a guest-friend.”

2. sıfat Of or relating to a fetial (member of the Roman college of priests who acted as representatives in disputes with foreign nations); (by extension) ambassadorial, heraldic.
3. sıfat Concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace.

   “The institution of a college of heralds and the fecial law, were proofs of a people considerably advanced in the cultivation of the law of nations as a science; and yet with what little attention they were accustomed to listen to the voice of justice and humanity, […]”