Feudatory Definition

fyo͝odə-tôrē
feudatories
noun
feudatories
A person holding land by feudal tenure.
Webster's New World
The land held; fief.
Webster's New World
A feudal fee.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
adjective
Of the feudal relationship between vassal and lord.
Webster's New World
Owing feudal allegiance (to)
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Feudatory

Noun

Singular:
feudatory
Plural:
feudatories

Origin of Feudatory

  • Medieval Latin feudatōrius from feudātus past participle of feudāre to enfeoff from feudum fee, fief feud2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the Latin feudātōrius, from the Mediaeval Latin feudāre (“to enfeoff”), from feudum, feodum.

    From Wiktionary

Feudatory Sentence Examples

  • In 1905 the greater part of Sambalpur district, with the feudatory states of Bamra, Rairakhol, Sonpur, Patna and Kalahandi, were transferred to Bengal, while the feudatory states of Chang Bhakar, Korea, Surguja, Udaipur and Jashpur were transferred from Bengal to the Central Provinces.

  • This line became extinct on the death of Count Eberhard (1393), who in 1385 had sold half his territory to the count palatine of the Rhine, and held the other half as his feudatory.

  • The count was about to pass into the feudatory stage.

  • When, at the end of 1661, a more stable administration was set up with Michael Apaffy (1661-1690) as prince, Transylvania had descended to the rank of a feudatory of the Turkish empire.

  • Bastar is divided into two portions - that held by the Raja or chief himself, and that possessed by feudatory chiefs under him.

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