feudally

The adjective "free" in this context may also be taken to infer that the mason is not enslaved, indentured or feudally bound.

The economy of Sudan was feudally based, with a large number of slaves supporting the ruling Funj class.

As with many French towns in the Middle Ages, Pernes was governed feudally by a succession of lords.

If they gave up territories in exchange for the surrender of Aquitaine, these would have to be held feudally in dependence of the crown of France.

They plundered the island and captured António Noli, who at the time held the territory feudally from the King of Portugal.

Hector Reaganach received his charter from the Lord of the Isles, and hence was feudally independent of Duard.

Criminal jurisdiction could, however, be granted to a trusted lord by the Crown by means of an additional franchise to give him the prerogative rights he owed feudally to the king.

Apart from the girl in the service station, who was clearly a person of no status, feudally speaking, and so didn't count, this was the first woman he'd spoken to in fifteen hundred years.

Since the De Villiers began in 1993, they have built up a genuine eco-lodge project, supporting a feudally poor local community as well as offering tree-house guest rooms in 2,000-year-old baobabs.

Prior to the abolition of feudal tenure, a rare alternative to land held feudally, indicating absolute ownership; most commonly used in relation to landownership in Orkney and Shetland (see also 'Udal').

Alexander's army crossed the Hellespontin 334 BC with approximately 42,000 soldiers from Macedon, various Greek city-states, mercenaries and feudally raised soldiers from Thrace, Paionia, and Illyria.

The World State in this ideal presents itself as the sole landowner of the earth, with the great local governments I have adumbrated, the local municipalities, holding, as it were, feudally under it as landlords.

It protected private property, especially feudal landownership, regulated procedures for official registration of landownership and court examination of land disputes, defined the status of the so-called izorniks (a category of feudally dependent peasants).

The constitution of many of these new kingdoms made them feudally obligated to the Pope, which liberated them from the theoretical feudal subjugation of the emperor or another king (such was the case of Portugal).

Not so much dead as feudally dozing, Krumlov deplored Schiele's superb, erotic draftsmanship and bohemian behavior while he was alive, and during the People's Republic he was not merely thought rude but foreign.

While the Atreides clan was too small and too feudally oriented to rule humanity, the Bene Gesserit lacked a desire to get their hands dirty or the passion to rule (which the Atreides had).

They were active in Bohemian conflicts with Poland, Hungary and the Kings and Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, and also in the intermittent internal conflicts common for feudally fragmented regimes of that time.

Prince-bishoprics were most common in the feudally fragmented Holy Roman Empire, where many were formally awarded the rank of an Imperial Prince Reichsfürst, granting them the immediate power over a certain territory and a representation in the Imperial Diet (Reichstag).

The daring ambition of "Pacific Overtures," first directed (and coaxed into shape) by the titanic Harold Prince, lay in its desire to show the impact of the arrival of Commodore Matthew C. Perry's American expedition to the still feudally insular Japan entirely through Japanese eyes.