predial
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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A Rocinha está localizada entre dois bairros ricos – Gávea e São Conrado – dois dos bairros com o imposto sobre a propriedade predial e territorial urbana mais alta do Rio de Janeiro.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2015
Again, in the ninth and tenth centuries, pestilence and famine accelerated the extinction of predial slavery by weakening the numbers of the free population.
From On Compromise by Morley, John
It has been taken to denote two degrees of servitude—the predial dependence of a colonus and the personal dependence of a true slave.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
They were household slaves, performing menial duties, and predial or rustic slaves who labored on the soil.
From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan
The predial groove might indeed nourish kindly the infant seeds and shoots of the peculiar vegetable to which it was appropriated, but was not a comfortable place of repose for adult man.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill
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