Definition of Feudalize

1. Verb. Bring (a country or people) under feudalism.

Generic synonyms: Convert
Derivative terms: Feudalism

Definition of Feudalize

1. v. t. To reduce to a feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.

Definition of Feudalize

1. Verb. To make something feudal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Feudalize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feudalize

feudal system
feudalisation
feudalise
feudalised
feudalises
feudalising
feudalism
feudalisms
feudalist
feudalistic
feudalists
feudalities
feudality
feudalization
feudalizations
feudalize (current term)
feudalized
feudalizes
feudalizing
feudally
feudaries
feudary
feudataries
feudatary
feudatories
feudatory
feudatory state
feuded
feuder
feuders

Literary usage of Feudalize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Decisions of the Court of Session: From November 1825 to [20th July 1841] by John Tawse, F. Somerville, John Craigie, George Robinson, Scotland Court of Session, Charles Gordon Robertson, Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) (1838)
"... but from a person who had no power to feudalize the lands, could not change their character from udal to feudal subjects; Beatton v. Gaudie, 2d Feb. ..."

2. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by House of Lords, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1837)
"... not flowing from the Crown, but from a person who had no power to feudalize the lands, could not change their character from udal to feudal subjects. ..."

3. The Law Reports by John Fraser Macqueen, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1869)
"It is nothing to say that it would be competent to the trustees to feudalize their titles under that deed. If they had done so, ..."

4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"William Rufus tried to feudalize the church, to bring its officers and lands under feudal law; he kept bishoprics and abbacies vacant and confiscated their ..."

5. Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin by University of Wisconsin (1908)
"... however, are apparent: to change the character of the offices from personal to public, and to feudalize the same by assigning them to certain powerful ..."

6. Medieval Civilization: Selected Studies from European Authors by Dana Carleton Munro, George Clarke Sellery (1907)
"Not only so, but various influences were at work tending to feudalize all the possessions of the Church, and even the Church itself. ..."

7. Appreciation of Literature by George Edward Woodberry (1921)
"To read Shakespeare is not, as is sometimes said, to feudalize the imagination and befool the mind with aristocratic and dead ideals; but to be myriad- ..."

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