Word Meanings - FEUDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures. 2. Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.
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- FEUDALIZATION
The act of reducing to feudal tenure. - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - SYSTEMATIZE
To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - FEUDALISM
The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages. - FEUDALIST
An upholder of feudalism. - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - SYSTEMLESS
Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system. - SYSTEMIZATION
The act or process of systematizing; systematization. - FEUDAL
1. Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures. 2. Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system. - SYSTEMATISM
The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - SYSTEMATIST
1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system. - CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We - CONSISTORY
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf. - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - DEFEUDALIZE
To deprive of the feudal character or form. - BERTILLON SYSTEM
A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc. - CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British - CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.