feal

American  

[feel] / fil /

adjective

1. Archaic. faithful; loyal.

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feal British  

/ fiːl /

adjective

1. an archaic word for faithful

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Etymology

Origin of feal

1550–60; < Old French feal ; fealty

Example Sentences

They was eleven of us children and all when we came through and I feal interrested about my Brothers.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by Still, William

Sometimes I feal like gittin' lonesum but I jist keep puttin' it of.

From Sowing Seeds in Danny by McClung, Nellie L.

I feal very anctious about you this winter, and how you are a doing.

From Spinning-Wheel Stories by Alcott, Louisa May

Ye know how my lord, Caerleon's liege, Swore feal to the Romans His lorn wife and daughters— When the wolf, Death, Gnawed life from his heart.

From Nirvana Days by Rice, Cale Young

He was thus answered by another parish oracle--perhaps the schoolmaster, perhaps a weaver:--"Fat better culd the man dee nir he's dune?--he bud tae big's dyke wi' the feal at fit o't."

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman