Noun

(viatica)

The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.

*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 37:

*:from Anglo-Saxon times there had been a deep conviction that to receive the viaticum was a virtual death sentence which would make subsequent recovery impossible.

Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey (often figurative).

*1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 20:

*:Towards night-fall he entered a town called Sa’adiyah where he alighted and took out somewhat of his viaticum and ate

*1971 , Anthony Burgess, M/F , Penguin 2004, p. 184:

*:That viaticum I had been made to drink had undoubtedly been spiked with cantharides or something

Noun

(en noun)

(feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.

(legal) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.

(legal) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail).

(obsolete) Property; owndom; estate.

* Wordsworth, On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee .

* 1844 , , by (James Russell Lowell)

What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee .

* 1915 , :

Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.

(obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.

(obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.10:

For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee .

A monetary payment charged for professional services.

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