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feudatory |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. --Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. --J. H. Newman. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: feudatory adj : of or relating to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord; "a feudatory relationship" [syn: {feudalist}] n : a person holding a fief [syn: {vassal}, {liege}, {liegeman}, {liege subject}]
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