predial
Americanadjective
adjective
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His cabinet immediately recognized a distinction between political and predial sources of disorder.
From Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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 John Hill Burton
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 Evan Evans
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 John Morley
Slavery of various kinds—racial, predial, domestic—the slavery of captives, and of debtors, had existed in India from time immemorial, and still flourished in 1836.
From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman
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