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Webster 1913 Edition


Feudatory

Feu′da-to-ry

,
Noun.
;
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Feudatory

FEU'DATORY

, n.
A tenant or vassal who holds his lands of a superior, on condition of military service; the tenant of a feud or fief.