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

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

Feudalize :: Feudalize (v. t.) To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.

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.

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..

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..

Fedaliza/tion :: Fedaliza/tion (n.) The act of reducing to feudal tenure.

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

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

Feudalized :: Feudalized (imp. & p. p.) of Feudaliz.

Roturier :: Roturier (n.) A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land..

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

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..

Feodality :: Feodality (n.) Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality.

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

Feud :: Feud (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee..

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

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..

Fealty :: Fealty (n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation..

Feudalism :: Feudalism (n.) The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.

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