feudatory Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
    vassal; liegeman; liege; liege subject.
  2. adjective of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord
    • a feudatory relationship
  3. adjective satellite owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign
    • it remained feudatory to India until 1365

WordNet

Feu"da*to*ry noun
Wordforms
plural Feudatories
Definitions
  1. A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
    The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone.
    [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.

Webster 1913