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n. - A person holding a fief adj. - Of or pertaining to the relation of a medieval vassal to his lord adj. - Owing a particular allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign.

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  • It remained feudatory to India until 1365
  • A feudatory relationship
  • The Bakufu insisted that to convey such a document direct from the Throne to a feudatory was a plain trespass upon the shogun's authority.
  • The petty state of Kushalgarh is feudatory to Banswara.
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