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praedial

American  
[pree-dee-uhl] / ˈpri di əl /
Or predial

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.

  2. arising from or consequent upon the occupation of land.

  3. attached to land.


praedial British  
/ ˈpriːdɪəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to land, farming, etc

  2. attached to or occupying land

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Other Word Forms

  • praediality noun

Etymology

Origin of praedial

1425–75; late Middle English < Medieval Latin praediālis landed, equivalent to Latin praedi ( um ) farm, estate + -ālis -al 1

Example Sentences

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We have had to examine its classes or divisions in their relation to freedom, personal slavery, and praedial serfage.

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Common in gross is a personal right to common pasture in opposition to the praedial rights.

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Mr. Bourke admits, however, that the praedial bondsman, under a good master, lived 'free from want and care'; and compares the worst sort of the Russian nobles, governing 'by bad and cruel intendants, and regardless of aught but the money derived from their distant lands,' to the absentee proprietors of his own country.

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Social tranquillity has appeared: the major crime in Grenada is "praedial larceny," the theft of garden vegetables.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though now nominally free, they were, before the establishment of British rule, the hereditary praedial slaves of the Kodagas.

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