(FEE-shuhl)
adjective
Relating to declarations of war and treaties of peace.
Etymology
From Latin fetialis, a member of the Roman college of priests, who performed the rites in such matters.]
"Joe -- in one of those fetial gestures by which we softened our warring -- had given me a couple of starts." — O.A. Bushnell; Ka'A'Awa: A Novel about Hawaii in the 1850s; University of Hawaii Press; 1972.
