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feudary

feudary adjective: held by, or relating to, feudal tenure.

Adjective

feudary (not comparable)

  1. Held by, or relating to, feudal tenure.

Noun

feudary (plural feudaries)

  1. A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.
    • […]as his client , vassal , feudary , and tenant , to receive it again of him at the hands of another cardinal[…]1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC
  2. A feodary.

Forms of feudary

pluralfeudaries

Origin of feudary

Late Latin feudarius.

Questions about feudary

What does feudary mean?
Feudary means held by, or relating to, feudal tenure.
What part of speech is feudary?
Feudary can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near feudary in the dictionary

  1. feudalized
  2. feudalizes
  3. feudalizing
  4. feudally
  5. feudaries
  6. feudary
  7. feudataries
  8. feudatary
  9. feudatorial
  10. feudatories
  11. feudatory

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