predial
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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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
His cabinet immediately recognized a distinction between political and predial sources of disorder.
From Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Peninsular glories and predial outrage have just the same one origin,—a love of distinction, and a craving desire for the enjoyment of that most fascinating of all excitements,—whatever perils life.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
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
The cultivators were, in fact, rack-rented up to the minimum of subsistence. but this much was insured to them; in other words, they were predial serfs.
From Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)
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