seigniorial

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  1. Pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial. Those lands were seigneurial. Sir W. Temple. A century since, the English Manor Court was very much what it now is; but the signorial court of France was a comparatively flourishing institution. Maine, Early Law and Custom, ix. He [the tenant] was required to bake his bread in the seigneurial oven. Amer. Jour. Philol., VII. 153.
  2. Vested with large powers; independent.

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  • As English scholar Alfred Cobban explained, feudalism as a system had withered away long before the Revolution abolished its last vestiges in the form of seigniorial rights. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • D'HOTEL, with his dashing clothes and polite but seigniorial ways. —  Yama: the pit
  • Property pure and simple, the dominant and seigniorial power over a thing; or, as they term it, NAKED —  What is Property?
  • I understood but little the meaning of the seigniorial life there. —  The Crossing
  • By the side of each baron, a squire, also on horseback, carried the seigniorial banner. —  Laboulaye's Fairy Book
 

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