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feudalize, v.|ˈfjuːdəlaɪz|
[f. feudal a.1 + -ize.]
trans. To make feudal, bring under the feudal system, impart a feudal character to; to convert (lands) into feudal holdings. Also, to reduce (persons) to the condition of feudal dependants.
1828Examiner 147/1 Could human beings be stultified and feudalized, like the peasantry in days of yore, into something a very little beyond the clods they trod upon. 1862Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. iii. 42 Allodial property was daily diminished in amount by proprietors feudalizing it. 1868Milman St. Paul's ii. 15 The Norman Conquest feudalised the Church..of England.
Hence ˈfeudalized ppl. a.; ˈfeudalizing vbl. n.
1851Ogilvie, Feudalizing, reducing to a feudal form. 1852Ld. Cockburn Jeffrey I. 365 Its strongly feudalised condition. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. iv. 252 The feudalizing process went on vigorously. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. iii. 91 This is no doubt true of feudalised countries. |