allodian

A1L1L1O1D2I1A1N1
UK/əˈləʊ.di.ən/US/əˈloʊ.di.ən/

adjective

Allodial.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

adjectiveallodian (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleterareAllodial.

    Yet in such case, nevertheless, of the return of the Upper Palatinate to the surviving Palatines, the Heirs of any Allodian Lands of the Bavarian Electors shall remain in Possession of the Rights and Benefices, which may lawfully appertain to them.

    1967, “Treaty of Westphalia. Munster, October 24, 1648”, in Fred L. Israel, editor, Major Peace Treaties of Modern History 1648-1967, volume I, Chelsea House Publishers; McGraw-Hill Book Co., page 14
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    'Tis well known that the French were the firſt Aggreſſors. The pretence was to recover the Patrimonial Rights, or the Allodian Lands and Rents of the Dutcheſs of Orleans, from the Prince Palatine of the Rhine, who had them in poſſeſſion, and to aſſiſt the Prince of Furſtemberg, a Creature of France, in his Pretenſions to the Archbiſhoprick of Cologn.

    1701, Marius D'Assigny, “Of Charles the Second King of Spain, the Thirty fifth Earl of Flanders, the fourth of that Name”, in The History of the Earls and Earldom of Flanders, London: […] D. Brown; S. Crouch; J. Taylor; A. Bell, page 276

    In memoriam of the Clan Laurin, anciently the allodian inhabitants of Balquhidder and Strathearn, the chief of whom, in the decrepitude of old age, together with his aged and infirm adherents, their wives and children, the widows of their departed kindred–[…]

    1870, “History of the Highland Clans”, in John Scott Keltie, editor, History of the Scottish Highlands: Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, volume II, London: William Mackenzie, page 280

Origin

  1. Latinallōdium
  2. Englishallodian

From Latin allōdium + -an.

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Chicago

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