feudalize

American  

[fyood-l-ahyz] / ˈfjud lˌaɪz /

especially British, feudalise

verb (used with object)

feudalized, feudalizing

1. to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.

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feudalize British  

/ ˈfjuːdəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to make feudal; create feudal institutions in (a society)

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Other Word Forms

• feudalization
  noun
• defeudalize
  verb (used with object)
• unfeudalize
  verb (used with object)
• antifeudalization
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of feudalize

First recorded in 1820–30; feudal + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

feudalize feudalized

William Rufus tried to feudalize the church, to bring its officers and lands under feudal law; he kept bishoprics and abbacies vacant and confiscated their revenues.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various

Without a moment's delay they began to feudalize the country by dividing the land and building castles.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.

Drawing large incomes from the estates they had still retained, they surrounded themselves with numerous clients and feudalized the customs and habits of the city itself.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

In all parts of the country, moreover, there was land, the tenure of which was never feudalized.

From The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)

In the free political atmosphere of the Italian communes, with their wealthy and leisured merchant class, that spirit could flourish much more readily than in the feudalized Europe across the Alps.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

It united the whole of feudalized Western Europe, in spite of all internal wars, into one grand political system, opposed as much to the schismatic Greeks as to the Mohammedian countries.

From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, Friedrich

Having feudalized the other states of Germany, Prussia sought to extend the feudal idea to the whole world, but was checked by the World War of 1914.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)