latifundiary

Adjective

latifundiary (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to latifundia.
   • The latifundiary regions of Boyacá contained high proportions of servants and vagrants, but so did neighboring Socorro, where land was not so much badly distributed as too scarce.1976, Frank Safford, The Ideal of the Practical: Colombia's Struggle to Form a Technical Elite, University of Texas Press, page 33
   • The Big House, although associated particularly with the sugar plantation and the patriarchal life of the northeast, is not to be looked upon as exclusively the result of sugar-raising, but rather as the effect of a slave-holding and latifundiary monoculture in general.1986, Gilberto Freyre, translated by Samuel Putnam, The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization, University of California Press, page xlii