seignorial

American  

[seen-yawr-ee-uhl, -yohr-] / sinˈyɔr i əl, -ˈyoʊr- /

Also seignioral

adjective

1. of or relating to a seignior.

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Other Word Forms

• unseignioral adjective
• unseignorial adjective

Etymology

Origin of seignorial

1810–20; seignor (variant of seignior ) + -ial

Example Sentences

In response to Clara’s imagination and the requirements of the moment, the noble, seignorial architecture began sprouting all sorts of extra little rooms, staircases, turrets, and terraces.

From Literature

With its double row of centenarian chestnut trees and its seignorial mansions, the street looked like an improbable setting for such a modest vehicle, but when it pulled up before my grandfather’s house it fit in very well.

From Literature

In the appeals which came ever more thickly crowding into the Parlement from every quarter, the mailed baron found himself hopelessly entangled in the legal intricacies which were robbing him of his seignorial rights almost without his knowledge; and the Ordonnances, or general laws, which emanated from the throne, were constantly encroaching on old privileges, weakening local jurisdictions, and giving to the whole country a body of jurisprudence in which the crown combined both the legislative and the executive functions.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus long before the feudal and seignorial courts felt the influence of the imperial jurisprudence, it had profoundly modified the principles and practice of ecclesiastical procedure.

From Project Gutenberg

The groundlessness of this claim is seen in an agreement made under the auspices of the Legate Romano in December, 1229, between the Bishop of B�ziers and the king, in which the royal right to the confiscations is recognized as incontestable, and the bishop only stipulates that in case of fiefs they shall, if granted, be held subject to his seignorial rights, or if the king retains them some compensation shall be made for the loss of the suzerainty.

From Project Gutenberg