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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord;
[syn: vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord;
- Example: "a feudatory relationship"

2. owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign;
- Example: "it remained feudatory to India until 1365"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Feudatory \Feu"da*to*ry\, a.
   Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory
   title. --Bacon.