n
Alternative form of aleconner [(historical, UK) An officer appointed yearly at the leet of ancient English communities to ensure the goodness and wholesomeness of bread, ale, and beer.]
adj
(uncommon, historical) Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service.
n
The territory governed by a ban.
n
the lands of a manor reserved for the Lord's use
n
The territory under the jurisdiction of a bey.
n
(law, historical) Synonym of overlord: the lord of a fee immediately owed personal service or rent by a tenant, a tenant's liege lord.
n
(historical) A territory (principality, province, etc.) ruled and administered by a count.
n
(UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) In Britain and some Commonwealth countries, land that is owned by the state, nominally titled to the reigning King or Queen of England, and whose use and disposition is controlled by a government within that Commonwealth country or by an official representative of the monarch.
n
The official title of the steward in a medieval English nobleman's household.
n
(by extension, historical) One of the twelve nobles granted feudal territories or episcopal sees by the King of France in return for their fealty (namely the Archbishop-Duke of Rheims; the Bishop-Dukes of Laon and Langres; the Bishop-Counts of Beauvais, Chalons, and Noyon, the Dukes of Normandy, Burgundy, and Aquitaine; and the Counts of Toulouse, Flanders and Champagne).
n
(ecclesiastical) A feria.
n
(historical) A reeve or official with local jurisdiction under the king; the chief magistrate of a district.
n
The rank or office of a harmost.
n
(historical) A confirmation and reaffirmation of one or several royal grants made in the past, generally at the request of a putative beneficiary.
n
(historical) A reeve in the Holy Roman Empire with responsibility for a particular territory.
n
(in full liege lord) A king or lord.
n
(archaic) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession
n
(in feudal Britain) A mock officer, appointed by lot, to preside over the Feast of Fools in a great household at Christmas.
n
(archaic) A ceremonial title retained or bestowed in certain contexts.
v
(transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lord, over.; to act as a lord or boss in relation to (someone or something).
n
Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
n
Archaic spelling of liege. [A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.]
n
(historical) A Welsh manor or feudal estate, a subdivision of a commote
n
(historical) Synonym of maritage.
n
(historical) In the Middle Ages, an officer who announced indulgences.
adj
Having certain aspects of feudalism.
n
(historical) The territory over which authority extends, a kingdom, an earldom, a diocese, district, city, and so forth.
n
The hereditary feudal ruler of Sark.
n
(Canada) The estate of a seigneur.
n
Alternative form of seigneurie [(historical) An area governed by a seigneur (French noble).]
n
A title of respect, formerly corresponding (especially in France) approximately to Sir.
adj
Of or pertaining to a seignior.
n
The territory or authority of a seignior, or lord.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a seignior.
n
The role or status of seignior.
n
(historical) The elders forming the municipal council in a medieval Italian republic.
n
Obsolete form of seignior. [A feudal lord; a nobleman who held his lands by feudal grant; any lord (holder) of a manor]
adj
Alternative form of seignorial [In the Middle Ages, relating to or befitting of a nobleman.]
adj
In the Middle Ages, relating to or befitting of a nobleman.
n
Alternative form of seigniory [The estate of a feudal lord.]
n
(obsolete) The territory of a lord, dominion.
n
The role or status of a serf.
n
Obsolete spelling of seigneur [(historical) A feudal lord or noble in French contexts.]
adj
Obsolete spelling of seigneurial [Of or relating to a seigneur or to seigneurialism.]
n
Obsolete spelling of seigneurialism [Manorialism; feudalism.]
n
Alternative form of seignior [A feudal lord; a nobleman who held his lands by feudal grant; any lord (holder) of a manor]
n
Alternative form of seigniory [The estate of a feudal lord.]
adj
Alternative form of seigneurial [Of or relating to a seigneur or to seigneurialism.]
n
The land-owning gentry; the squirearchy.
n
In Poland, a castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life.
n
The property or jurisdiction of a thane
n
Obsolete form of thane. [(historical) A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron.]
adj
of or pertaining to vassals
adj
Pertaining to or characteristic of the status of vassal.
n
(historical) A Westphalian "proto-vigilante" tribunal system during the Middle Ages.
n
(historical) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.
adj
Of or pertaining to a villein.
n
An estate held (as fief or nominally) with the title of viscount
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