Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer on feuds; one versed in feudal law.
- noun One living under the feudal system.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
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- noun One who takes part in
feuds . - noun A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.
Etymologies
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Examples
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To speak of his feud to a feudist is a serious breach of the mountain etiquette.
Whirligigs O. Henry 1886
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Sirven, who exercised in that province the profession of a feudist.
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Grace learns that Tom Gray is in the feudist country.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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As the trembling old woman gaped, the eye of the slain feudist opened and shut.
Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945
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He died in a hospital down in the Blue Grass where white-clad nurses and grave-faced doctors with a knowing of the miracles of modern surgery and medicine could not prolong the life of the aged feudist for one short second.
Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945
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As he stood in that bleak and lonely cabin, lost in the desolate wastes of snow, he was simply the clansman -- the feudist -- the primitive avenger.
The Snowshoe Trail Edison Marshall 1930
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He was once more a tribal feudist of the border land.
A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912
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But the inheritance from feudist ancestors was strong in young Clanton.
A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912
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Where long-haired feudist Hotspurs bite the dust ...
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems Vachel Lindsay 1905
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Even the Kentucky feudist is after a sort an Old Testament religionist, who has not gone beyond the idea of the "blood avenger" of Mosaic permission.
The old South, 1904
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