feudatory

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: feu=da=to=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

feudatory, n. 

 A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.  [1913 Webster]
"The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal."  [1913 Webster]
"[He] had for feudatories great princes."  [1913 Webster]

feudatory, a. 

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

OXFORD DICTIONARY

feudatory, adj. & n.
--adj. (often foll. by to) feudally subject, under overlordship.
--n. (pl. -ies) a feudal vassal.

Etymology

med.L feudatorius f. feudare enfeoff (as FEUD(2))

ROGET THESAURUS

feudatory

Subjection

N subjection, dependence, dependency, subordination, thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom, feudalism, feudality, vassalage, villenage, slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude, conquest, service, servitude, servitorship, tendence, employ, tutelage, clientship, liability, constraint, oppression, yoke, submission, obedience, subject, dependent, subordinate, feudal, feudatory, in subjection to, under control, in leading strings, in harness, subjected, enslaved, constrained, downtrodden, overborne, overwhelmed, under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked, the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of, under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb, a slave to, at the mercy of, in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of, at the feet of, at one's beck and call, liable, parasitical, stipendiary, under, slaves - in a land of light and law.