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Definition of Feudatory

1. Noun. A person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord.

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord. "A feudatory relationship"

3. Adjective. Owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign. "It remained feudatory to India until 1365"

Definition of Feudatory

1. n. A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.

2. a. Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.

Definition of Feudatory

1. Adjective. Relating to feudalism, feudal. ¹

2. Noun. A feudal vassal. ¹

3. Noun. A fee paid by such a vassal to hold land. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Feudatory

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Feudatory

feudalists feudalities feudality feudalization feudalizations feudalize feudalized feudalizes feudalizing feudally

feudaries feudary feudataries feudatary feudatories feudatory (current term) feudatory state feuded feuder feuders

feuding feudings feudist feudists feuds feued feuillemort feuillemorte feuilleton feuilletonism

Literary usage of Feudatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and ...by India Foreign and Political Dept by India Foreign and Political Dept (1892)
"Names of Zamindars of Non-feudatory Zamindars of . List of — . ... Zamindars of regarding — Succession rules relating to non-feudatory ..."

2. Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1846)
"... and sent him a consecrated banner.1 It was probably on this account that Gregory the Seventh, his immediate successor, claimed William as a feudatory. ..."

3. Young India: An Interpretation and a History of the Nationalist Movement by Lajpat Rai (1916)
"feudatory Chiefs Powerless. " It would perhaps be ungenerous to probe too narrowly the dependent position and consequent involuntary action of the feudatory ..."

4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"In the ten- Provinces of non- feudatory India, with feudatory India, the latest returns, show a total urn of ... feudatory State* be assumed to be correct. ..."

5. The Earl of Mayo by William Wilson (Sir) Hunter (1891)
"CHAPTER IV LORD MAYO'S DEALINGS WITH THE feudatory STATES THE India of which Lord Mayo ... But the Independent or feudatory Native Powers in India must, ..."

6. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers (1840)
"The feudatory families were not exiled, but all the partisans of France, expelled from the territory and from the senate, were recalled and reinstated. ..."

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