Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Feudatory \Feu"da*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Feudatories}.
A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on
condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.
The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal.
--Blackstone.
[He] had for feudatories great princes. --J. H.
Newman.
Source : WordNet®
feudatory
adj 1: of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his
lord; "a feudatory relationship"
2: owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign;
"it remained feudatory to India until 1365"
n : a person holding a fief [syn: {vassal}, {liege}, {liegeman},
{liege subject}]