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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 feu·da·to·ry /ˈfjudəˌtori, ˌtɔr-/
 (a.)受有封地的,封地的,封臣的封臣,封地

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Feu·da·to·ry, a. Held from another on some conditional tenure; as, a feudatory title.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Feu·da·to·ry n.; pl. Feudatories  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.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 feudatory
      adj 1: of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his
             lord; "a feudatory relationship"
      2: owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign;
         "it remained feudatory to India until 1365"
      n : a person holding a fief [syn: vassal, liege, liegeman,
           liege subject]