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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Adscript :: Adscript (a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.
Fedaliza/tion :: Fedaliza/tion (n.) The act of reducing to feudal tenure.
Feudality :: Feudality (n.) The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
Feudalized :: Feudalized (imp. & p. p.) of Feudaliz.
Feudalist :: Feudalist (n.) An upholder of feudalism.
Feudal :: Feudal (a.) Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures..
Relief :: Relief (n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant..
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..
Feudist :: Feudist (n.) A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
Feudalize :: Feudalize (v. t.) To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.
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.
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..
Defeudalize :: Defeudalize (v. t.) To deprive of the feudal character or form.
Curia :: Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
Feudalizing :: Feudalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feudaliz.
Feudary :: Feudary (a.) Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure..
Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..
Daimio :: Daimio (n.) The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.
Roturier :: Roturier (n.) A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land..
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