feodary
English
Noun
feodary (plural feodaries)
- An accomplice.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Art thou a feodary for this act?
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- (UK, law) An ancient officer of the Court of Wards[1]
References
- 1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary
- “feodary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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