Part 116

Every little fetch of wit and criticism.

South.

2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.

Dickens.

Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.

Fetch"er (?), n. One who fetches or brings.

Fete (ft), n. [See feat.] A feat. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fete, n. pl. [See Foot.] Feet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

||FÍte (ft), n. [F. See Feast.] A festival.

FÍte champÍtre (&?;) [F.], a festival or entertainment in the open air; a rural festival.

FÍte (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. FÍted; p. pr. & vb. n. FÍting.] [Cf. F. fÍter.] To feast; to honor with a festival.

{ Fe"tich, Fe"tish (?), n. }[F. fÈtiche, from Pg. feitiÁo, adj., n., sorcery, charm, fr. L. facticius made by art, artifical, factitious. See Factitious.] 1. A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being.

2. Any object to which one is excessively devoted.

{ fe"tich*ism, Fe"tish*ism (? or ?); 277), n. }[Cf. F. fÈtichisme.] [Written also feticism.] 1. The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.

2. Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration.

The real and absolute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper.

Tylor.

{ Fe"tich*ist, Fe"tish*ist, n. } A believer in fetiches.

He was by nature a fetichist.

H. Holbeach.

{ Fe`tich*is"tic (?), Fe`tish*is"tic, a.} Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism.

A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread.

G. Eliot.

Fe"ti*cide (? or ?), n. [Written also fúticide.] [Fetus + L. caedere to kill.] (Med. & Law) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

Fe"ti*cism (?), n. See Fetichism.

Fet"id (? or ?; 277), a. [L. fetidus, foetidus, fr. fetere, foetere, to have an ill smell, to stink: cf. F. fÈtide.] Having an offensive smell; stinking.

Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy.