Feal vs False - What's the difference?
feal | false |
(of things) Cosy; clean; neat.
*1847 , Henry Scott Riddell, Poems, songs and miscellaneous pieces :
(of persons) Comfortable; cosy; safe.
* 1887 , Allan Cunningham, Henry Morley, Traditional tales of the English and Scottish peasantry :
Smooth; soft; downy; velvety.
In a feal manner.
(archaic) faithful, loyal
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between feal and false
is that feal is faithful while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.feal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fele, .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(en-adj)- But if it stands in humble hame The bed, — I'll say this far in't, — Is clean and feel as ony lair King ever lay on — and that is mair Than mony ane could warrant.
- [...] when I care na to accompany ye to the kirkyard hole mysel, and take my word for't, ye'Il lie saftest and fealest on the Buittle side of the kirk; [...]
Derived terms
* (l), (l)Adverb
(en-adv)Etymology 2
From (etyl) felen, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
(Not found in Middle English), from (etyl) feal, collateral form of feeil, from (etyl) fidelis.Adjective
(en-adj)Derived terms
* fealtyfalse
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}