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geneat Hist.|gɪˈniːt, jɛˈneːat|
[repr. OE. ᵹenéat = OS. genôt (Du. genoot), OHG. ginôȥ (MHG. genôȥ), also ginôȥo (MHG. genôȥe, mod.Ger. genosse), ON. nautr:—OTeut. *ga-nauto-z, f. *neut- (OE. néotan to enjoy, use). The original sense is companion, follower, esp. in war; in OE. the word was also in use as a legal term = vassal, tenant.]
A retainer, vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent.
[a900O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 897 æðelferð cynges ᵹeneat. c1050Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 422/20 Inquilinis [sic] ᵹeneat. Ibid. 466/11 Parasitis, ᵹeneatum, ᵹesoþum (? read ᵹesiþum). ]1861Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. I. 201 The tenants, cotsetlas, geburs, and geneats, were the highest among the semiservile. 1872E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 101 The right of the husbandman was a share right, his name was Geneat or sharer in the vill.
b. attrib., as geneat-land.
[c1000Laws of Eadgar ii. c. i. (Schmid), æᵹðer ᵹe of þeᵹenes in-lande ᵹe of ᵹeneat-lande.] 1892F. Seebohm in Hist. Rev. July 458 In each manor there is the same division into land in demesne and land in villainage, the inland and the geneat land. |