Feudal

4 definitions found

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

  feudal \feu"dal\ (f[=u]"dal), a. [F. f['e]odal, or LL.
     feudalis.]
     1. Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or fees; as, feudal
        rights or services; feudal tenures.
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     2. Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing
        tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  feudal
       adj : of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism [syn: {feudalistic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "feudal":
     absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary, aristocratic,
     arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, bossy, client,
     dependent, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, feodal, feudatory,
     grinding, high-handed, imperative, imperial, imperious, inferior,
     liege, lordly, magisterial, magistral, manorial, masterful,
     monocratic, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, peremptory,
     praedial, real, repressive, seigneurial, seignioral, servile,
     severe, strict, subject, subordinate, subservient, suppressive,
     tributary, tyrannical, tyrannous, vassal
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FEUDAL. A term applied to whatever concerned a feud; as feudal law: feudal 
  rights.