Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Roman law, a tenant by emphyteusis.

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  • The mysteries of _emphyteusis, emphyteuma, _ and _emphyteuta_ were still hidden to her, though her steward spoke of them with surprising loquacity and fluency.

    Saracinesca 1881

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