Definition of feudal

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Feudal (a.) Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system..

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Feudist :: Feudist (n.) A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
Feudalist :: Feudalist (n.) An upholder of feudalism.
Coshering :: Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.
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..
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..
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..
Adscript :: Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
Defeudalize :: Defeudalize (v. t.) To deprive of the feudal character or form.
Feudalize :: Feudalize (v. t.) To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.
Feudary :: Feudary (a.) Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure..
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..
Allodial :: Allodial (a.) Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system..
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..
Feudality :: Feudality (n.) The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
Roturier :: Roturier (n.) A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land..
Unfeudalize :: Unfeudalize (v. t.) To free from feudal customs or character; to make not feudal.
Feodal :: Feodal (a.) Feudal. See Feudal.
Daimio :: Daimio (n.) The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.
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..
Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
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