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Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A feodary. See Feodary.

Zamindar :: Zamindar (n.) A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue..

Extinct :: Extinct (a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law..

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

Curia :: Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.

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..

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

Villain :: Villain (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant..

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

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..

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

Vassal :: Vassal (n.) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant..

Daimio :: Daimio (n.) The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.

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..

Feudtory :: Feudtory (a.) Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title..

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

Feodal :: Feodal (a.) Feudal. See Feudal.

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.

Inextinguishable :: Inextinguishable (a.) Not capable of being extinguished; extinguishable; unquenchable; as, inextinguishable flame, light, thirst, desire, feuds..

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..

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