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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Feudatory

/fyo͞oʹdətərĭ/ · Feu·da·to·ry · IPA /ˈfjuːdətəɹɪ/
01 n. A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
pl. Feudatories
  1. 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.
02 a. Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.
  1. 1.
    Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.