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Feudatory
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title. Bacon.