feudalize

[ fyood-l-ahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, feu·dal·ized, feu·dal·iz·ing.

1. to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.

feudalize

/ ˈfjuːdəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. tr to make feudal; create feudal institutions in (a society)

Derived Forms

• ˌfeudaliˈzation, noun

Other Words From

• feudal·i·zation noun
• anti·feudal·i·zation adjective noun
• de·feudal·ize verb (used with object) defeudalized defeudalizing
• un·feudal·ize verb (used with object) unfeudalized unfeudalizing

Word History and Origins

Origin of feudalize¹

First recorded in 1820–30; feudal + -ize

Example Sentences

It united the whole of feudalized Western Europe, in spite of all internal wars, into one grand political system, opposed as much to the schismatic Greeks as to the Mohammedian countries.

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In the free political atmosphere of the Italian communes, with their wealthy and leisured merchant class, that spirit could flourish much more readily than in the feudalized Europe across the Alps.

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William Rufus tried to feudalize the church, to bring its officers and lands under feudal law; he kept bishoprics and abbacies vacant and confiscated their revenues.

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Having feudalized the other states of Germany, Prussia sought to extend the feudal idea to the whole world, but was checked by the World War of 1914.

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Toryism is the political expression of feudalized society, with lords and squires at the top, subservient dependants half-way down, and a mass of brutalized serfs at the bottom.

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