What is "seigneurial"

Usage examples of "seigneurial".

Brilliant, enthusiastic, fanatically French, the new Seigneur had set himself to revive certain old traditions, customs, and privileges of the Seigneurial position.

As his gloomy imagination pictured the future, when Madelinette should return and see him as he was and cease to love him--to build up his Seigneurial honour to an undue importance, to give his position a fictitious splendour, became a mania with him.

Louis Racine sat in the great Seigneurial chair, returned from the gates of death.

I shall indulge your impertinence in view of the singular circumstances that apparently cloud your judgement, and thus condescend to remind you that the Corpse Privilege numbers among the hereditary seigneurial rights.

Of far more significance, in her eyes, was the loss of certain ancient feudal and seigneurial rights, some of them quaintly colourful.

Framley itself was a pleasant country place, having about it nothing of seigneurial dignity or grandeur, but possessing everything necessary for the comfort of country life.

Instead of standing in a windowless corporate cave, she saw herself in the great hall of a seigneurial household.

Duke of Brittany, his kinsman, and other lands and seigneurial rights he ceded to the Bishop of Nantes, and to the chapter of the cathedral in that city.

The new National Constituent Assembly, of which her father was a member, abolished the ancient system of feudalism and the collection of seigneurial dues and services, and drafted a Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.

I remained there for several years before the revolution began in 1789, and that is when I became aware of the innate problems eating away at the French monarchy and the seigneurial system.

Spofford brought the jug of wine, but did no hosting, was only a little seigneurial as he and Pierce strolled down amid the people, saying hi and passing remarks.

But while the small fry were forever in and out of jail, against the seigneurial sharks there was somehow never sufficient evidence.

To his doctor and his servants, to the hunt club, to the Church there were grand seigneurial legacies.

Given the bad blood that existed between the viscount and his uncle, he had not expected the count to be easily persuaded into an alliance, despite the ties of family and seigneurial obligation that bound the two men.

All the seigneurial rights accumulated during a thousand years by the dominant military caste, the right of justice, the privilege of commanding armies, the hunting privileges, the warren, the dovecot, serfage, were sacrificed on the altar of patriotic regeneration.