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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Allodium :: Allodium (n.) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud..
Fedaliza/tion :: Fedaliza/tion (n.) The act of reducing to feudal tenure.
Homage :: Homage (n.) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign..
Feudataty :: Feudataty (a. & n.) See Feudatory.
Infeudation :: Infeudation (n.) The granting of tithes to laymen.
Feudalized :: Feudalized (imp. & p. p.) of Feudaliz.
Feudatory :: Feudatory (n.) A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
Feoffment :: Feoffment (n.) The grant of a feud or fee.
Defeudalize :: Defeudalize (v. t.) To deprive of the feudal character or form.
Attorn :: Attorn (v. t.) To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate..
Adscript :: Adscript (a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.
Suzerainty :: Suzerain (n.) A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount..
Liege :: Liege (a.) Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject..
Feodatory :: Feodatory (n.) See Feudatory.
Fief :: Fief (n.) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2..
Feudally :: Feudally (adv.) In a feudal manner.
Adscript :: Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
Coshering :: Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.
Feudal :: Feudal (a.) Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures..
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