: of or relating to a form of government in witch power is shared between a central government and individual states, provinces, ect. : of or relating to the central government. : of, relating to, or kayak to the federal government during the american civil war.
The influence of Old English in the Mayflower Compact is most easily discernible in grammatical structure. Spelling and punctuation, as well as capitalization is not very different from today's.
