† feedmann.
Obsolete.
(a) One holding a fee n.2; a vassal. (b) A soldier serving for pay.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > receiving pay
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society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > vassal
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > one holding in feu
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c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xvii He shall haue than a greter myght..than he hath nowe off all his oþer ffeed men.
1465 Duke of Norfolk in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 430 Doo warne owre feede men and servauntes..that they be ther thann in owre leverey.
1485 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) p. xcvi, 38 Knyghts of his feedmen.
1555 J. Bradforth in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) III. ii. App. xlv. 346 Lettres touching my Lord Pagette, that he shoulde be the Frenche Kinges feode man.
1565 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1611) 476 The Emperour is a Vassall or a Feedman of the Church of Rome.
1722 Bp. T. Wilson in J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. I (1863) xv. 484 With..intention of lessening the Governor's authority..over the Feedmen in the Garrisons.
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