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Predial

Predial \Pre"di*al\, a. [L. praedium a farm, estate: cf. F. pr['e]dial.]

  1. Consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate; that is, real estate.
    --Ayliffe.

  2. Attached to land or farms; as, predial slaves.

  3. Issuing or derived from land; as, predial tithes.

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Etymology 1

  1. (alternative form of praedial English) Etymology 2

    v

  2. (context transitive English) To dial in advance.

Usage examples of "predial".

Before the rapid increase of population had forced governments to study political economy and to investigate the means of subsisting a people, statesmen had contented themselves by attributing to political causes these predial disturbances, and by recommending for them political remedies.

His cabinet immediately recognized a distinction between political and predial sources of disorder.

In the predial, peaceful routine of their days there is a positive similarity.