Crossword-Solution: INFEUDATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Infeudation | n. | The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee. |
| Infeudation | n. | The granting of tithes to laymen. |
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| enfeoffment | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
EIMTOON
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A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with INFEUDATION (5)
The tenures created during this era of universal infeudation were as various as the conditions which the tenants made with their new chiefs or were forced to accept from them.
The lord with his vassals, during the ninth and tenth centuries, may be considered as a patriarchal household, recruited, not as in the primitive times by Adoption, but by Infeudation; and to such a confederacy, succession by Primogeniture was a source of strength and durability.
The relation of the lord to the vassals had originally been settled by express engagement, and a person wishing to engraft himself on the brotherhood by _commendation_ or _infeudation_ came to a distinct understanding as to the conditions on which he was to be admitted.
The lord had many of the characteristics of a patriarchal chieftain, but his prerogative was limited by a variety of settled customs traceable to the express conditions which had been agreed upon when the infeudation took place.
The crown is the first overlord or superior, and land is held of it by crown vassals, but they in their turn may "feu" their land, as it is called, to others who become _their_ vassals, whilst they themselves are mediate overlords or superiors; and this process of sub-infeudation may be repeated to an indefinite extent.