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Example sentences for "feudatory"

Lexicographically close words:
feudal; feudalism; feudalistic; feudality; feudatories; feuding; feudist; feuds; feuillage; feuille
  1. In 1905 the district of Sambalpur, together with the five feudatory states, was transferred to Bengal.

  2. The kingdom of Crotia was shared by eleven Zoupans, or feudatory lords; and their united forces were numbered at sixty thousand horse and one hundred thousand foot.

  3. Mr. Smith states that these Yadava kings were descendants of feudatory nobles of the Chalukya kingdom, which embraced parts of western India and also Gujarat.

  4. The transfer of Sambalpur and the Uriya States to Bihar and Orissa has reduced their strength in the Central Provinces to about 5000, found in the Raipur District and the Bastar and Chota Nagpur Feudatory States.

  5. The Gaharwars are found in small numbers in the Central Provinces, chiefly in the Chhattisgarh Districts and Feudatory States.

  6. A small occupational caste who wash for gold in river-beds, belonging to the Sambalpur, Mandla, Balaghat and Chanda Districts and the Chota Nagpur Feudatory States.

  7. In the Central Provinces the Nagvansi Rajputs number about 400 persons, nearly all of whom are found in the Chhattisgarh Districts and Feudatory States, and are probably descendants of Kol or Munda landholding families.

  8. It would perhaps be ungenerous to probe too narrowly the dependent position and consequent involuntary action of the feudatory chiefs.

  9. Since the Emperor had given the ruler of Chuan-yĆ¼ the right to sacrifice to its mountains, that state had some measure of independence, though it was feudatory to Lu, and within its borders.

  10. The house of Holkar remained faithful to its engagements with the British government, and its position as a feudatory of the empire was maintained.

  11. The petty state of Kushalgarh is feudatory to Banswara.

  12. The leader of the revolt, Kunz von Thunfeld, a feudatory of the bishop, fled the territory, and was only allowed to return on his formally surrendering his lands in perpetuity to the bishopric.

  13. But in addition to the general luxury in which the higher ecclesiastics outdid the lay element of the Empire, there was a special cause which rendered them obnoxious alike to the peasants, to the towns, and to their own feudatory nobles.

  14. Thus the petty feudatory became one of the most powerful dynasts of Asia Minor, to whom might be entrusted the guardianship of an important part of the frontier of the empire.

  15. This strange and ennobling sentiment had not yet penetrated the mind of Rollo and his followers, at the great ceremonial of his reception as a feudatory of the Crown.

  16. It is also spoken in the Bellary district, which was formerly under Maratha dominion, by various Maratha castes, and in the feudatory State of Sandur.

  17. Included therein were the small feudatory States of Pudukottai, Banganapalle, and Sandur, and the larger Native States of Travancore and Cochin.

  18. The tribes were feudatory to the British, and in their talks spoke of the King of Great Britain as "father," and Brant was a British pensioner.

  19. The kingdom of Croatia was shared by eleven Zoupans, or feudatory lords; and their united forces were numbered at sixty thousand horse and one hundred thousand foot.

  20. Leaving Cawnpore, we crossed the Ganges and travelled forty miles to Lucknow, the capital of the country of Oude, which was ruled by a feudatory of the Mogul Empire, who had become a feudatory of the British Crown.

  21. The problem was to induce the co-operation of a feudatory whose castle served for frontier guard to the fief of a powerful chief, his suzerain.

  22. In fact, the competition for the patronage of Portuguese traders was so keen that the Hirado feudatory attempted to burn several of their vessels because they frequented the territorial waters of his neighbour and rival, Sumitada.

  23. Fully appreciating that fact, the shrewd feudatory of Hirado laid himself out to entice the Dutchmen to his fief, and he succeeded.

  24. During their residence of 31 years at Hirado they had enjoyed full freedom, had been on excellent terms with the feudatory and his samurai, and had prospered in their business.

  25. In the same year (1564) the feudatory of Sawa, a brother of Takayama, became a Christian and imposed the faith on all his vassals, just as Sumitada and other feudal chiefs had done in Kiushiu.

  26. Three months previously to this bombardment of Kagoshima another puissant feudatory had thrown down the gauntlet.

  27. It was expected, however, that they should make presents to the feudatory into whose port they carried their goods, and these presents were often very valuable.

  28. The first was an act of fraud and forgery committed in the interests of a Christian feudatory by a trusted official, himself a Christian.

  29. She put into Kuchinotsu, and her presence, with its suggested eventualities, gave such satisfaction that the feudatory offered to accept baptism and to sanction its acceptance by his vassals.

  30. The men most active and most relentless in carrying on the persecution were Mizuno and Takenaka, governors of Nagasaki, and Matsukura, feudatory of Shimabara.

  31. Nobunaga seized the Jesuits in Kioto, and threatened to suppress their religion altogether unless they persuaded the feudatory to abandon the cause of his suzerain.

  32. It became the duty of the Suzerain, in subjecting fifty millions of Indians to permanent feudatory rule, to secure, by a closer supervision, that such rule should prove a blessing and not a curse to the people.

  33. The right of adoption and of succession to the government of the Feudatory States of all classes, was placed on the same firm basis as the right of adoption and of inheritance to private property.

  34. And in our private friendship and hospitality, we shall prefer the smallest Feudatory who rules righteously, to the greatest Prince who misgoverns his people.

  35. The changed status of the Feudatory Princes gradually evolved its practical incidents, not always without friction, during the ten years after India passed to the Crown.

  36. This important change in the status of the Feudatory Princes carried with it increased responsibilities both on their part and on the part of the Suzerain.

  37. But he made every Feudatory in India clearly understand that if he persistently misgoverned his subjects, the sceptre would be taken out of his hands.

  38. But the Independent or Feudatory Native Powers in India must, in their opinion, for ever remain a menace to our sway.

  39. During Lord Mayo's Viceroyalty she devoted herself to the measures of progress which the Viceroy pressed on every Feudatory Chief who came under his influence.

  40. A peculiar feature of this alliance lay in the fact that the king of Semenjan was feudatory to Afrasiab, the deadly enemy of Persia, while Rustum was her greatest champion.

  41. This territory was long held by Rustum's family, feudatory to the Persian kings.

  42. This, in addition to Normandy, which he also held as a feudatory of the French crown, rendered the kingly vassal a greater territorial lord than even the sovereign to whom he did homage for his continental lands.

  43. Philip of France, in the midst of dominions, if not absolutely feudatory to the crown[101] of that monarch, at least bound to it by friendship and alliance.

  44. Then, in 936, the Kitan gained the allegiance of the Turkish general Shih Ching-t'ang, and he was set on the Chinese throne as a feudatory of the Kitan.

  45. Presents were sent to the chieftain of the tribe, he was helped against his enemies, and he was given the status of a feudatory of the Sung; in 988 the family name of the Sung, Chao, was conferred on him.

  46. They were now able to achieve their old ambition: a prince of the Chou dynasty was installed as a feudatory of the north, reigning until 587 in the present Hankow.

  47. The feudatory Prelates follow'd him, drest in short purple Mantles, and riding on Mules, two a breast.

  48. A war of a less bloody kind is begun between the Pope and the King of Naples, who has refused this year to pay the annual tribute of the hackney as an acknowledgment that he holds his kingdom as feudatory of the Pope.

  49. Bastar is divided into two portions--that held by the Raja or chief himself, and that possessed by feudatory chiefs under him.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feudatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.