Hypertext Webster Gateway: "feudatory"
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) 1.7 (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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