Feudatory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Feudatory \Feu"da*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Feudatories}.
     A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on
     condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
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           The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal.


                                                    --Blackstone.
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           [He] had for feudatories great princes.  --J. H.
                                                    Newman.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Feudatory \Feu"da*to*ry\, a.
     Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory
     title. --Bacon.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  feudatory
       adj 1: of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his
              lord; "a feudatory relationship"
       2: owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign;
          "it remained feudatory to India until 1365"
       n : a person holding a fief [syn: {vassal}, {liege}, {liegeman},
            {liege subject}]