Wiktionary
n. feudalism
WordNet
n. the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war [syn: feudalism]
Usage examples of "feudal system".
Now that the feudal system is abolished let nothing remain of it: let there be no more seignorial claims.
But Europe would have perished without the ``feudal system'' of the dark ages.
The feudal system is formed for a nation employed in agriculture, and has never long kept its hold where gold and silver have become common.
He'd been sure, though, that the organization into Households was a revival or reinvention of a feudal system, in which a Householder was responsible for the feeding and clothing of his retainers, and in return had an indefinite amount of power.
The religious ardor was more strongly felt by the princes of the second order, who held an important place in the feudal system.
In the feudal system of Europe, arms were the title of distinction and the measure of allegiance.
This feudal system was a sort of crystallization of society about power.
In this crisis the nation was not satisfied with rectifying the feudal system.
Under the feudal system in its vigor, the holding of land was only one [351] incident of a complex personal relation.
Northmen who conquered Gaul and established the feudal system there.
The feudal system only seemed simple, as each vassal reported to his feudal superior with as many armed men as he could bring.