Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See seigniorial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.
  • adjective Vested with large powers; independent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of or relating to a seigneur
  • adjective befitting a seigneur

Etymologies

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seigneur +‎ -ial

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Examples

  • The Genoveses 'emphasis on "the world the slaveholders made" (which, at times, indulges in its own romanticism about the paternalistic impulses of planters and their "seigneurial" way of life) seemed to Gutman erroneous because it did not adequately explain what the slaves themselves had experienced.

    'Roll, Jordan, Roll' Ferleger, Lou 1988

  • On the question of the "'seigneurial' way of life" of Southern planters, Kazin might consult the introduction to the Wesleyan University Press edition of The World the Slaveholders Made (1988) in which Genovese notes,

    'Roll, Jordan, Roll' Ferleger, Lou 1988

  • Eddie, a medic wearing a flight suit stitched with a logo that reads "Nam Power," hops out, hustles to Seth and takes control with seigneurial assertion.

    Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part III Richard Bangs 2011

  • Eddie, a medic wearing a flight suit stitched with a logo that reads "Nam Power," hops out, hustles to Seth and takes control with seigneurial assertion.

    Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part III Richard Bangs 2011

  • "He is a very lean and complete player," Madrid medical chief Carlos Diez has said, making it sound a bit like an arranged marriage or a seigneurial de-flowering.

    World Cup 2010 live blog: 8 July 2010

  • He refers to earlier social orders (the seigneurial system and the privileged orders of feudal society); a new social order (liberal democracy, bourgeois economy); large historical structures such as feudalism and capitalism; and a specific category of revolution (bourgeois revolution).

    Ontology of the French Revolution Daniel Little 2009

  • The date will be August 4th, which happens to be President Obama's birthday and the anniversary of the abolition of feudalism (4 August 1789) in France, which swept away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate (the nobility) and the tithes gathered by the First Estate (the Roman Catholic clergy), and, basically, kicked off the French Revolution.

    Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Yes, We Ca(e)n! In Normandy 2009

  • He refers to earlier social orders (the seigneurial system and the privileged orders of feudal society); a new social order (liberal democracy, bourgeois economy); large historical structures such as feudalism and capitalism; and a specific category of revolution (bourgeois revolution).

    Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • Another place to observe the remains of this old seigneurial system is on the south bank of the St. Lawrence River from Rivière-du-Loup downstream toward Rimouski.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • In these pivotal years, Champlain also had an impact on the development of the seigneurial system, which began to expand in Quebec during his governorship.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

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