fecial

Updated: June 21, 2025

He undertakes long and toilsome journeys to do justice to its object; he exposes himself, for its sake, to every species of privation; he fights for it; and often dies in its defence. He appoints no fecial messenger to proclaim, by an empty formality, the commencement of war.

Benjamin Drake - Great Indian Chief of the West: Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk