Part 4564

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<h1>Fratrage</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Fra"trage</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?; 48)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>frater</ets> a brother.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A sharing among brothers, or brothers' kin.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Crabb.</i>

<h1>Fratricelli</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Fra`tri*cel"li</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[It. <ets>fraticelli</ets>, lit., little brothers, dim. fr. <ets>frate</ets> brother, L. <ets>frater</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also <altname>Fratricellians</altname> and <altname>Fraticelli</altname>.</def>

<h1>Fratricidal</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Frat"ri*ci`dal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to fratricide; of the nature of fratricide.</def>

<h1>Fratricide</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Frat"ri*cide</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fratricidium</ets> a brother's murder, fr. <ets>fratricida</ets> a brother's murderer; <ets>frater</ets>, <ets>fratris</ets>, brother + <ets>caedere</ets> to kill: cf. F. <ets>fratricide</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <ety>[L. <ets>fratricida</ets>: cf. F. <ets>fratricide</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who murders or kills his own brother.</def>

<h1>Fraud</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Fraud</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>fraude</ets>, L. <ets>fraus</ets>, <ets>fraudis</ets>; prob. akin to Skr. <ets>dh<?/rv</ets> to injure, <ets>dhv<?/</ets> to cause to fall, and E. <ets>dull</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.</def>

<blockquote>If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if <b>fraud</b> or force attained his ends. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A trap or snare.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>To draw the proud King Ahab into <b>fraud</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Constructive fraud</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>an act, statement, or omission which operates as a fraud, although perhaps not intended to be such.</cd> <i>Mozley & W.</i> -- <col>Pious fraud</col> <fld>(Ch. Hist.)</fld>, <cd>a fraud contrived and executed to benefit the church or accomplish some good end, upon the theory that the end justified the means.</cd> -- <col>Statute of frauds</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>an English statute (1676), the principle of which is incorporated in the legislation of all the States of this country, by which writing with specific solemnities (varying in the several statutes) is required to give efficacy to certain dispositions of property.</cd></cs>

<i>Wharton.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Deception; deceit; guile; craft; wile; sham; strife; circumvention; stratagem; trick; imposition; cheat. See <er>Deception</er>.</syn>

<h1>Fraudful</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Fraud"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things.</def>

<i>I. Taylor.</i>

-- <wordforms><wf>Fraud"ful*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Fraudless</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Fraud"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Free from fraud.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Fraud"less*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Fraud"less*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Fraudulence; 135, Fraudulency</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw><hw>Fraud"u*lence</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <hw>Fraud"u*len*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fraudulentia</ets>.]</ety> <def>The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness.</def>