The characteristic epithet of persons in the relation of feudal superior and vassal. Of the vassal: Bound to render feudal service and allegiance…

Bound to a lord; obliged to act in the interests of a lord or master.

transferred. One who holds, in relation to another, a position similar or comparable to that of a feudal vassal.

Feudally subject. Const. to.

Of a person: Owing feudal allegiance to another; subject.

= feudatory, adj. 1.