clientaryadj.

1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 48 When your Clientary traine hath bin too long for the streete.

1646 A. Leighton Epitome or Briefe Discov. iv. 57 As for Clientary Dependency, in truth I neither had it nor did affect it.

1704 S. Mackensie Vis Unita Fortior i. iii. 95 For these notable Services perform'd by the Scots against the Danes..were these Clientary Provinces of Northumberland, &c. given over to the Scots.

1779 R. Kelham tr. Laws William Conqueror 49 (heading) Of the Clientary Action of Covenant against the Lord.

1828 J. C. Hare & C. Thirlwall tr. B. G. Niebuhr Hist. Rome I. 410 Such of its citizens as settled at Rome found a clientary relation already established for them.

1895 Green Bag 7 52/1 By reason of complications in other clientary directions he was obliged to decline the enormous fee that they proffered.

1968 D. E. Green tr. B. Reicke New Test. Era​ vi. ii. 231 The former kingdom of Macedonia was divided into four clientary kingdoms in 168 B.C.

1981 Theory & Society 10 691 The neo-fascists channelled these protests into a cohesive protest against Christian Democracy and its system of clientary power.

2009 W. Keulen Gellius the Satirist v. 130 Romans perceived social and sexual subordination in very similar terms. The parallels between sexual and clientary hierarchies become especially explicit.