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Adscript :: Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.

Feudality :: Feudality (n.) The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.

Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud..

Feudally :: Feudally (adv.) In a feudal manner.

Vidame :: Vidame (n.) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles..

Coshering :: Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.

Unfeudalize :: Unfeudalize (v. t.) To free from feudal customs or character; to make not feudal.

Fief :: Fief (n.) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2..

Feudataty :: Feudataty (a. & n.) See Feudatory.

Adscript :: Adscript (a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..

Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds..

Infeudation :: Infeudation (n.) The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee.

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..

Feudalist :: Feudalist (n.) An upholder of feudalism.

Rerefief :: Rerefief (n.) A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant.

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..

Subinfeudation :: Subinfeudation (n.) The granting of lands by inferior lords to their dependents, to be held by themselves by feudal tenure..

Livery :: Livery (n.) The uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.

Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.

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