Word Meanings - ANTRUSTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.

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• VOLUNTARY
  Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle
• PRINCESSE
  A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.
• VASSALESS
  A female vassal. Spenser.
• VASSAL
  The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. Burrill. 2. A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave. "The vassals of his anger." Milton. Rear vassal,
• VASSALAGE
  1. The state of being a vassal, or feudatory. 2. Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks. 3. A territory held in vassalage. "The Countship of Foix, with six territorial vassalages."
• PRINCESS
  1. A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. Dryden. So excellent a princess as the present queen. Swift. 2. The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family. Shak. 3. The consort of a prince; as, the
• VOLUNTARYISM
  The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.
• VASSALRY
  The body of vassals.
• PRINCESSLIKE
  Like a princess.
• FRANKISH
  Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.
• FOLLOWER
  1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer. 2. A sweetheart; a beau. A. Trollope. The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston. A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• UNVOLUNTARY
  Involuntary. Fuller.
• ENVASSAL
  To make a vassal of.
• INVOLUNTARY
  1. Not having will of the power of choice. 2. Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers. 3. Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant;