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n. The power, rank, or estate of a feudal lord. Also called signory.

n. The estate of a feudal lord.

n. The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

n. The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

n. The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.

n. Lordship; power or authority as sovereign lord; jurisdiction; power.

n. Preëminence; precedence.

n. A principality or province; a domain.

n. The elders who constituted the municipal council in a medieval Italian republic.

n. A lordship without a manor, or of a manor in which all the lands were held by free tenants: more specifically called a seigniory in gross.

To exercise lordship over; be lord of.

n. the estate of a seigneur

n. the position and authority of a feudal lord

"Influenced by the liberal doctrines of the Enlightenment, German reformers tried to accelerate and regulate this process by limiting seignorial dues and services in hopes that liberation from the most oppressive aspects of seignorialism and a larger stake in the produce of a seigniory would encourage peasants to work harder."

demesne    land    landed estate    acres    estate   

seigneur   

dominion    lordship    seigneury    signory   

dukedom    unbricker    homicideand    archbishopric    duchy