fetial (ˈfiːʃəl) ![]() | |
| —n , pl fetiales | |
| 1. | (in ancient Rome) any of the 20 priestly heralds involved in declarations of war and in peace negotiations |
| —adj | |
| 2. | of or relating to the fetiales |
| 3. | a less common word for heraldic |
| [C16: from Latin fētiālis, probably from Old Latin fētis treaty] | |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |