Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Less correct spellings, based, like the French feodal, etc., on the less correct Middle Latin forms, feodum, feodalis, etc., of feud, feudal, etc. The English pronunciation (fū d, fū ′ dal, etc.) belongs to the spelling feud, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A feud. See 2d
feud .
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- noun Obsolete form of
feud . (estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service)
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Examples
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Whereas our imperiall highnesse thinketh it expedient to aduertise you our welbeloued friend of all our affaires: We thought it not amisse to signifie vnto your, royal Maiestie certaine exploits at this present atchieued by vs. From the beginning therefore of our inauguration our imperiall highnes hath mainteined most deadly feod and hostility against Gods enemies the Persians, seeing them so to triumph ouer Christians, to exalt themselues against the Name of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"Thomas Ferrars holds of the heirs of Roger Arden the third part of the feod of Radcliffe, Leicestershire," 37 Henry VI.,
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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Whereas our imperiall highnesse thinketh it expedient to aduertise you our welbeloued friend of all our affaires: We thought it not amisse to signifie vnto your, royal Maiestie certaine exploits at this present atchieued by vs. From the beginning therefore of our inauguration our imperiall highnes hath mainteined most deadly feod and hostility against Gods enemies the Persians, seeing them so to triumph ouer
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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We blefs thee for our health, and peace, an4 feod, and raiment; for our Mends and relations, and eyery other blefltng chat makes our pilgrimage eafjr ind comfortable.
An admonition to unconverted sinners : in a serious treatise ... to which are added, prayers for families Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668 1793
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I. Prey \ feod gouen by violence.iMilfM. a. Rapine; rapacioufneft .. fftfj.
A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ... 1768
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