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

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

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

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

Subingression :: Subinfeudation (n.) Subordinate tenancy; undertenancy.

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..

Infeudation :: Infeudation (n.) The granting of tithes to laymen.

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

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..

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..

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

Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) The state of being a vassal, or feudatory..

Vendetta :: Vendetta (n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.

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..

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

Feodatory :: Feodatory (n.) See Feudatory.

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

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

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