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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 297 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FEUD , animosity, hatred, especially a permanent See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of hostilities between persons, and hence applied to a See also:

state of private warfare between tribes, clans or families, a " See also:

VENDETTA (Ital. from Lat. vindicta, revenge, vindicare, to defend oneself)

vendetta." The word appears in See also:

Mid. Eng. as fede, which came through the O. Fr. from the O. High Ger. fehida, See also:

MODERN

modern Fehde. The O. See also:

Teutonic faiho, an See also:

ADJECTIVE (from the Lat. adjectives, added)

adjective, the source of fehida, gives the O. Eng. fah, foe. " Fiend," originally an enemy (cf. Ger. Feind), hence the enemy of mankind, the See also:

DEVIL (Gr. &a,3oXos, " slanderer," from &ctflisXX sty, to slander)

devil, and so any evil spirit, is probably connected with the same source. The word fede was of Scottish usage, but in the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century took the See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form foode,fewd in See also:

ENGLISH

English. The New English See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary points out that " feud, See also:

fee (See also:

Lat. feudum) could not have influenced the See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change, for it appears fifty years later than the first instances of foode, &c., and was only used by writers on See also:

feudalism." For the See also:

ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology of "feud" (feudum) see FEE, and for its See also:

HISTORY

history see FEUDALISM.

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