fief|fiefs in English

noun

[fɪːf]

fee, feudal estate, land held on condition of service and loyalty to the feudal lord who granted it

Use "fief|fiefs" in a sentence

1. It influences base income from fief.

2. Thus, Barons usually possessed a fief

3. Syria has been Balkanised into a patchwork of fiefs

4. An Allod could be converted into a fief, by the owner surrendering it to a lord and receiving it back as a fief

5. Other towns, like Nicu's fief, Sibiu, have similar though smaller museums.

6. The environment has hitherto been a fief of the interior ministry.

7. For five years she was marooned in the Tigers'northern fief.

8. Owners of Benefices gradually succeeded in turning their lifelong grants into hereditary feudal property, or fiefs

9. All is peaceful in our fief and the rice harvest is bountiful.

10. The heir on taking up his ancestors fief had to pay a relief.

11. WND I: 99 A Warning against Begrudging One’s Fief ( pp.823 - 826 ) PDF download

12. New Orleans now has one elected tax assessor - instead of seven, each overseeing his own fief.

13. Owners of Benefices gradually succeeded in turning their lifelong grants into hereditary feudal property, or fiefs

14. Most notable were the Assizes of Bretagne and Champagne on the inheritance of fiefs (12th-14th centuries).

15. According to the history of Miskawayh, they began distributing iqtas (fiefs in the form of tax farms) to their supporters.

16. Bishoprics were in the royal gift and, as sizeable landed endowments, they were like fiefs.

17. They oversaw the administration of Buddhist temples (ji) and Shinto shrines (sha), many of which held fiefs.

18. It had no fiefs to be the subject of investiture, no peasant tenure, no peasant serfs.

19. The shōgun also administered the most powerful han, the hereditary fief of the House of Tokugawa.

20. Since returning from his Easter break in Florida he has bungled and backtracked even in his fief, the Senate.

21. The Ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services.

22. Innocent asserted his paternal protection of Frederick and the position of Sicily as a fief of the papacy.

23. He had had no time to acquaint himself with his fief, twice seen, and well enough served by its own.

24. The opposite of a fief was the freehold, allod or allodium, which roughly corresponds to the present freehold estate.

25. Armed with a court order and with policemen in tow , he is stepping into his former fief regularly .