Feudatories

Feudatories
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. [1913 Webster]

The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]

[He] had for feudatories great princes. --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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