federal

1. 1

   Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.not-comparable

   • Yet the Romans, taking them [the Carthaginians] at an Advantage, vvhen they vvere in Streights; compell'd them, contrary to all Fœderal Right and Juſtice, by Nevv Articles, both to part with Sardinia, their Lavvful Territory, and alſo to pa
2. 2

   Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.not-comparable

   • That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument con
   • From April 1995 to May 1996, the Subcommittee on Crime of the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight
3. 3

   Relating to covenantalism.not-comparable

   • federal theology

1. 1

   A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.

2. 2

   A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.; A law-enforcement official of the FBI.US

3. 3

   A Union soldier in the American Civil War.UShistorical

4. 4

   A supporter of federation.

syn. fed