单词 | feudal |
释义 | feudaladj.1n. A. adj.1 1. a. Of or pertaining to a feud or fief; of the nature of a feud or fief. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [adjective] > of or relating to a fief feudal1614 fieffal1738 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 188 Neither did the Prouinces make them otherwise then Personal. For they were not annext to them as Feudall. a1677 M. Hale Hist. Common Law ix. 183 Wales, that was not always the Feudal Territory of..England. 1710 J. Dundas Summary View Feudal Law xii. 47 The Money got for a Few is moveable..not Fewdal, for it does not succeed in place of the Few. 1861 Kemp Comm. (1873) III. liii. 497 The conversion of allodial into feudal estates. b. Heraldry. (See quot. 1847.) ΚΠ 1847 H. Gough Gloss. Terms Brit. Heraldry Arms of Succession, otherwise called feudal arms, are those borne by the possessors of certain lordships or estates. 2. a. Of or pertaining to the holding of land in feud. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [adjective] > relating to holding in feu beneficiarya1626 feudal1639 1639 H. Spelman Feuds & Tenures xxiii. 38 There was no..intervenient Lord to claim them by any feodal Tenure. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 39 In all countries where the feodal polity has prevailed. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 48 The first rudiments of the feudal tenures. 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. v. 103 The feudal arrangement of attachment to the soil. b. feudal system n. the system of polity which prevailed in Europe during the Middle Ages, and which was based on the relation of superior and vassal arising out of the holding of lands in feud. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > systems based on specific principle > [noun] > feudal system feudal system1776 feudalism1839 manorial system1871 baronism1884 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 300 Poland, where the feudal system still continues to take place. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. ix. 208 The feudal system never took root in their soil. 3. a. Of or pertaining to the feudal system; existing or such as existed under that system. feudal lawyer: one learned in feudal law. feudal writers: those who treat of the feudal system. feudal homage now historical homage entailing little or no obligation of service; contrasted with liege homage n. at liege adj. and n. Compounds; cf. simple homage n. at simple adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > systems based on specific principle > [adjective] > feudal feudal1665 feudisticala1693 feudatorial1789 feudalistic1884 1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 32 By the Feodall (printed Feodau) Law that King, their Lord, had forfeited his Right to his Fee. 1704 W. Atwood Superiority Crown Eng. xviii. 200 An Oath of Allegiance is of farther import, than bare Feudal Homage. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. 241 According to the known distribution of the feodal writers. 1810 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. ii, in Poems (ed. 5) I. 112 Like them, in feudal days, their valiant lords. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 31 Those feudal institutions which united the vassal to the liege-lord, and both to the crown. 1840 T. A. Trollope Summer in Brittany II. 106 The ruins of two ancient feodal castles. 1856 Bouvier's Law Dict. U.S.A. (ed. 6) I. 588 Homage was liege and feudal. The former was paid to the king, the latter to the lord. 1886 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. iii. 64 It is time..that we had a feudal map of England. 1999 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 6th Ser. 9 172 Henry, by contrast, was willing to pay feudal homage provided Louis would give him the amount of land in Swabia he could encircle at noontide with a plough. b. feudal vassal, lord, etc.: one holding that position in the sense implied in the feudal system. ΚΠ 1639 H. Spelman Feuds & Tenures ii. 4 Their Feudal Vassals..enjoyed their Feuds..from year to year at the pleasure of their Lords. 1839 W. Chambers Tour Holland 65/1 Otho, the feudal proprietor of this stronghold. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 18 That loyalty with which the people followed the standard..of their feudal superiors. c. Occasionally of persons or their opinions: Adhering to the principles of the feudal system. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > systems based on specific principle > [adjective] > feudal > adhering to feudal system feudal1876 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 463 Lawyers..would naturally look at everything with feudal eyes. 1883 ‘Ouida’ Wanda I. 89 We are very feudal still. Feudal privileges. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [noun] > feudal rights feudal1625 1625 F. Markham Bk. Honour ii. iv. 54 All sorts..shall enioy their Feodalls and Rights, to which they are truely borne. Derivatives ˈfeudally adv. in a feudal manner or spirit; under feudal conditions. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > systems based on specific principle > [adverb] > under feudal system feudally1839 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. ii. 126 The pope..cannot depose these princes..unless they are feudally his vassals. 1850 G. Mazzini Royalty & Republicanism in Italy 158 Abjectly..trembling before the people when it arose..yet feudally insolent when the lion was quieted again. 1873 R. Broughton Nancy II. 184 A very aged, ignorant, and feudally loyal couple. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). feudaladj.2 rare. Of or pertaining to a (deadly) feud. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > [adjective] > relating to deadly enmity mortalc1425 feudal1805 the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > state of bitter and lasting mutual hostility > [adjective] feudal1805 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. viii. 14 The havoc of the feudal war. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iii. iv. 67 The foemen's feudal hate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1n.1614adj.21805 |
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