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 (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.
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..
Daimio :: Daimio (n.) The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.
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..
Feudary :: Feudary (a.) Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure..
Feudality :: Feudality (n.) The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.
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.
Bail :: Bail (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
Feudalize :: Feudalize (v. t.) To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.
Feudalizing :: Feudalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feudaliz.
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.
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..
Feudist :: Feudist (n.) A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
Suzerainty :: Suzerain (n.) A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount..
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..
Fedaliza/tion :: Fedaliza/tion (n.) The act of reducing 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..
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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