Definition of feud

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Feud (n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race..

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Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud..
Fedaliza/tion :: Fedaliza/tion (n.) The act of reducing to feudal tenure.
Feudatories :: Feudatories (pl. ) of Feudator.
Feoff :: Feoff (v. t.) To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.
Fealty :: Fealty (n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation..
Enfeoff :: Enfeoff (v. t.) To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment..
Feudary :: Feudary (a.) Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure..
Feodality :: Feodality (n.) Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality.
Feudal :: Feudal (a.) Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures..
Feud :: Feud (n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race..
Feudal :: Feudal (a.) Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system..
Knight :: Knight (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life..
Daimio :: Daimio (n.) The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.
Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds..
Feudalist :: Feudalist (n.) An upholder of feudalism.
Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
Infeudation :: Infeudation (n.) The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee.
Rerefief :: Rerefief (n.) A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant.
Adscript :: Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
Extinct :: Extinct (a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law..
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