Feudatory

Feu´da`to`ry

n.	1.	A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief. The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. - Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. - J. H. Newman.
a.	1.	Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.
	2.	A fire kindled in a public place in token of joy; a bonfire; a firing of guns in token of joy.

Noun	1.	feudatory - a person holding a fief Synonyms: liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal
Adj.	1.	feudatory - of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord; "a feudatory relationship"
	2.	feudatory - owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign; "it remained feudatory to India until 1365"