Category:Feudatory

Feu"da*to*ry, n.; pl. Feudatories (.

Defn: A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief. The grantee. . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.

feudatory Feu"da*to*ry, a.

Defn: Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title. Bacon.