feudatory
Americannoun
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feudatories
plural
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a person who holds lands by feudal tenure; a feudal vassal.
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a fief or fee.
adjective
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(of a kingdom or state) under the overlordship of another sovereign or state.
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(of a feudal estate) holding or held by feudal tenure.
noun
adjective
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relating to or characteristic of the relationship between lord and vassal
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(esp of a kingdom) under the overlordship of another sovereign
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of feudatory
1585–95; < Medieval Latin feudā ( tor ) fief-holder ( see feud 2, -ator) + -tory 1, -tory 2 )
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"But Indore has been a powerful feudatory of the Raj," it said.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025
This induced the Hirado feudatory to revoke the edict which he had issued against the Jesuits, and they were preparing to take advantage of his renewed hospitality when a Portuguese merchantman entered Hirado.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
Satan, according to demonologists once the governor of the north of Heaven, is now a feudatory prince in the kingdom of Beelzebub.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
If the fine is not paid immediately after the death of the last feudatory, they confiscate the crops derived from the meadows subject to this tenure.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
England, the presenting the villein with free arms, seems to have been the symbol of his restoration to all the rights which a feudatory was entitled to.
From Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia by St. George Tucker
The governmental sites of the daimyo or feudatories of the Tokugawa period generally find the origin of their urban development in these residences of the shugo of the Ashikaga period.
From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Katsuro Hara
Later the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg inherited the duchy, became feudatories of Poland as well as electors at home.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Italian cities were communities of manufacturers and merchants, into which only gradually, and at the sacrifice of every aristocratic privilege and habit, a certain number of originally foreign feudatories were gradually absorbed.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Vernon Lee
But his expenditure was large: he had to pay his feudatories; and he had to provide fiefs in money and kind to those who had not fiefs of land.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
Such great feudatories were never possible in the Kamakura period.
From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Katsuro Hara
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