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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.
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The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal.
--Blackstone.
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[He] had for feudatories great princes. --J. H.
Newman.
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Feudatory \Feu"da*to*ry\, a.
Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory
title. --Bacon.
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feudatory
adj 1: of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to
his lord; "a feudatory relationship"

2: owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign;
"it remained feudatory to India until 1365"
n 1: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and
service to a feudal lord [syn: vassal, liege,
liegeman, liege subject, feudatory]

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