Prandial vs Praedial - What's the difference?
prandial | praedial |
Of or pertaining to land or its products.
Coming from or the occupation of land.
Attached to the land (of slavery etc.); having to work on the land or an estate; deriving from the land.
* 1855 , Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah , Dover 1964, p. 60 (n.):
* 1969 , Philip Ziegler, The Black Death , Folio Society 2006, p. 216:
As adjectives the difference between prandial and praedial
is that prandial is of or pertaining to a meal, especially dinner while praedial is of or pertaining to land or its products.praedial
English
Alternative forms
* * predialAdjective
(en adjective)- Nothing, for instance, can be more disgraceful to human nature than the state of prædial slavery, or serfs attached to the glebe, when Malabar was under the dominion of the "mild Hindu."
- After the Black Death many villeins, viewing enviously the high wages earned by those no longer bound to render predial services, began to think that the conditions in which they were placed were no longer generally fair.
