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See Fetich, n., Fetichism, n., Fetichistic, a.

The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.

The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett.

Reproduction by spontaneous fission.

cs of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism. Thackeray.

The principles and conduct of a fogy. [Colloq.]

pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.

herence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion. Official formalism. Sir H. Rawlinson.

The science or state of fossils. Coleridge.

The coöperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.

Fraternization. [R.] Jefferson.

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.

Frivolity. [R.] Pristley.

A movement or phase of post-impressionism (which see, below).

The doctrines of Galen.

The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.

The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.

That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.