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Seigniorial

Seigniorial \Seign*io"ri*al\, a. Same as Seigneurial.

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seigniorial

a. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a seignior

Usage examples of "seigniorial".

So she said something vaguely seigniorial and unconsciously cruel to him and paid no attention to his answer except to notice that he called her Dame Alice instead of Madam.

Conquest, and is at present only seen at glimpses amid the wreck of the ancient seigniorial families about Quebec.

Ecclesiastical or seigniorial, its charge is ubiquitous, as though gold held the power of lodestones.

Tim felt good too, walking proudly between them with his head held high and an easy seigniorial smile - as any man would in his place.

The seigniorial rights, including that of coining money, belonged to the bishops.

He grew eloquent, pictured his distress, and how his stern, impartial sense of justice had restrained it, and finally, with what seigniorial joy he now received the truth.