Word Meanings - TENANTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley.

Related words: (words related to TENANTRY)

• KINGDOMED
  Having a kingdom or the dignity of a king; like a kingdom. "Twixt his mental and his active parts, Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages And batters down himself. Shak.
• KINGDOM
  1. The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Ps. cxiv. 13. When Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself.
• MANOR
  The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family. My manors, rents, revenues, l forego. Shak. Note: In these days, a manor rather signifies the
• TENANTRY
  1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley.
• MANORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a manor. " Manorial claims." Paley.
• TENANCY
  A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another. A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another. Blount. Blackstone. Wharton.
• UNDERTENANCY
  Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an undertenant.
• SUBKINGDOM
  One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoölogy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and
• LIEUTENANTRY
  See LIEUTENANCY
• LIEUTENANTSHIP
  See 1
• UNDERKINGDOM
  A subordinate or dependent kingdom. Tennyson.
• LIEUTENANCY
  1. The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant. 2. The body of lieutenants or subordinates. The list of the lieutenancy of our metropolis. Felton.