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feud
CIDE DICTIONARY
feud, n. [OE. feide, AS. f, fr. fāh hostile; akin to OHG. f, G. fehde, Sw. fejd, D. feide; prob. akin to E. fiend. See Foe.].
- A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. [1913 Webster]
- A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. [1913 Webster]"Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several tribes and kindreds."
Syn. -- Affray; fray; broil; contest; dispute; strife.
A stipendiary estate in land, held of a superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profits thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
feud, n. & v.
--n.
1 prolonged mutual hostility, esp. between two families, tribes, etc., with murderous assaults in revenge for a previous injury (a family feud; be at feud with).
2 a prolonged or bitter quarrel or dispute.
--v.intr. conduct a feud.
--n.
1 prolonged mutual hostility, esp. between two families, tribes, etc., with murderous assaults in revenge for a previous injury (a family feud; be at feud with).
2 a prolonged or bitter quarrel or dispute.
--v.intr. conduct a feud.
feud, n. a piece of land held under the feudal system or in fee; a fief.
Etymology
med.L feudum: see FEE
THESAURUS
feud
acrimony, adverse possession, alodium, altercate, altercation, animosity, animus, antagonism, argument, avengement, bad blood, battle, bicker, bickering, bitter feeling, bitterness, blood feud, box, brawl, broil, burgage, claim, clash, close, collide, colony, combat, come to blows, conflict, contend, contention, contest, controversy, copyhold, cut and thrust, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, differ, disagree, disagreement, discord, dispute, dissension, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, duel, embroilment, enmity, equitable estate, estate at sufferance, estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy, estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, estrangement, exchange blows, fall out, falling-out, fee, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, fence, feod, feodum, feudal estate, fief, fiefdom, fight, fight a duel, flite, fliting, fracas, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, fuss, gavelkind, getting even, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, grudge, hard feelings, hatred, have words, having title to, hold, holding, hostility, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, imbroglio, join issue, jostle, joust, knight service, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal estate, legal possession, logomachy, mandate, mix it up, occupancy, occupation, open quarrel, original title, owning, paramount estate, particular estate, polemic, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, quarrel, rancor, rassle, remainder, reprisal, retaliation, revanche, revanchism, revenge, reversion, riot, rivalry, row, run a tilt, run-in, scramble, scuffle, seisin, set to, sharp words, skirmish, slanging match, snarl, socage, soreness, sourness, spar, spat, squabble, squatting, strife, strive, struggle, sublease, sweet revenge, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, thrust and parry, tiff, tilt, title, tourney, tussle, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, vendetta, vengeance, venom, vested estate, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, virulence, vitriol, wage war, war, words, wrangle, wrestleROGET THESAURUS
feud
Discord
N discord, disagreement, discord, disaccord, dissidence, dissonance, jar, clash, shock, jarring, jostling, screw loose, variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie, division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach, schism, feud, faction, quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, demel_e, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words, wrangling, jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap, family jars, polemics, litigation, strife, warfare, outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war, broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation, embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus, breeze, squall, riot, disturbance, commotion, bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point, bone of contention, bone to pick, apple of discord, casus belli, question at issue, vexed question, vexata quaestio, brand of discord, troublous times, cat-and-dog life, contentiousness, enmity, hate, Kilkenny cats, disputant, strange bedfellows, discordant, disagreeing, out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient, unreconciled, unpacified, contentious, quarrelsome, unpacific, gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious, factious, litigious, litigant, pettifogging, at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words, up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled, torn, disunited, quot homines tot sententiae, no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites, Mars gravior sub pace latet, discord, discordance, dissonance, cacophony, want of harmony, caterwauling, harshness, Babel, Dutch concert, cat's concert, marrowbones and cleavers, discordant, dissonant, absonant, out of tune, tuneless, unmusical, untunable, unmelodious, immelodious, unharmonious, inharmonious, singsong, cacophonous, harsh, jarring.Property
N property, possession, suum cuique, meum et tuum, ownership, proprietorship, lordship, seignority, empire, interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding, tenure, vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest, use, trust, benefit, legal estate, equitable estate, seizin, seisin, absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold, fee tail, fee simple, estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail, estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general, limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate, estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie, remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility, dower, dowry, jointure, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony, legacy, Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds, assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances, wealth, money, what one is worth, what one will cut up for, estate and effects, landed property, landed real estate property, realty, land, lands, tenements, hereditaments, corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments, acres, ground, acquest, messuage, toft, territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence, manor, honor, domain, demesne, farm, plantation, hacienda, allodium, fief, fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency, arado, merestead, ranch, free lease-holds, copy lease-holds, folkland, chattels real, fixtures, plant, heirloom, easement, right of common, right of user, personal property, personal estate, personal effects, personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables, stock, stock in trade, things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia, equipage, parcels, appurtenances, impedimenta, luggage, baggage, bag and baggage, pelf, cargo, lading, rent roll, income, maul and wedges, patent, copyright, chose in action, credit, debt, one's own, landed, predial, manorial, allodial, free lease-hold, copy lease-hold, feudal, feodal, to one's credit, to one's account, to the good, to one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to one and his heirs and assigns, to one and his executors administrators and assign.For further exploring for "feud" in Webster Dictionary Online
