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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of feudalise.

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Examples

  • I could get nothing out of a servant so feudalised, as it were, to his master.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • This despotic government had the right to require the services of all its subjects in case of need; and it was only the centralised government of the colony, and the warlike and adventurous character of its small feudalised society, which enabled it to hold its own for so long against the superior numbers but laxer organisation of its English neighbours.

    The Expansion of Europe Ramsay Muir 1906

  • This narrower Gascony was a thoroughly feudalised land: the absentee dukes had little authority, domain, or revenue: and the chief lordships were held by magnates, whose relations to their overlord were almost formal, and by municipalities almost as free as the cities of Flanders or the empire.

    The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

  • Scotland feudalised that it seemed arguable that the monarchy, or at least its demesne lands, might be divided among all the representatives of the coheiresses, after the fashion in which the Huntingdon estates had been allotted to all the representatives of Earl David.

    The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

  • During its strongly feudalised condition, the landholders of Scotland, who were almost the sole judges, were really known only by the names of their estates.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • In India, as nearly all over the world except in feudalised Britain, the state is the common landlord in the interests of all classes who hold the soil subject to the payment of customary rents, directly or through middlemen, to the

    Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

  • Welsh Tudors, and was never at any time thoroughly feudalised.

    Post-Prandial Philosophy Grant Allen 1873

  • As compared with the feudalised and contented serf of South-Eastern England, are not the Irish peasant, the

    Post-Prandial Philosophy Grant Allen 1873

  • As long as South-Eastern England and the Normanised or feudalised Saxon lowlands of Scotland contained all the wealth, all the power, and most of the population of Britain, the Celtic ideals had no chance of realising themselves.

    Post-Prandial Philosophy Grant Allen 1873

  • I could get nothing out of a servant so feudalised, as it were, to his master.

    A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866

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