Definition of feud

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Feud (n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed..

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Subingression :: Subinfeudation (n.) Subordinate tenancy; undertenancy.
Daimio :: Daimio (n.) The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.
Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession..
Arriere-ban :: Arriere-ban (n.) A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France..
Lord :: Lord (n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor..
Feudtory :: Feudtory (a.) Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title..
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..
Adscript :: Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds..
Feudalizing :: Feudalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feudaliz.
Vendetta :: Vendetta (n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A feodary. See Feodary.
Suzerainty :: Suzerain (n.) A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount..
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..
Feod :: Feod (n.) A feud. See 2d Feud.
Fedaliza/tion :: Fedaliza/tion (n.) The act of reducing to feudal tenure.
Feudataty :: Feudataty (a. & n.) See Feudatory.
Feodatory :: Feodatory (n.) See Feudatory.
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..
Curia :: Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
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