Vocabulary : Fetuses to Feudality

Fetuses : of Fetus
Fetwah : A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law.
Feu : A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money.
Feu de joie : A fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.
Feuar : One who holds a feu.

Feud : A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. ;; A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. ;; A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
Feudal : Of or pertaining to feuds, fiefs, or feels; as, feudal rights or services; feudal tenures. ;; Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.
Feudalism : The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
Feudalist : An upholder of feudalism.
Feudality : The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution.

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