Vassal vs Manbote - What's the difference?
vassal | manbote |
(historical) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
A subject; a dependant; a servant; a slave.
* Milton
Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
To subordinate to someone or something.
(legal, historical, Anglo-Saxon) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.
As nouns the difference between vassal and manbote
is that vassal is the grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant while manbote is a sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.As an adjective vassal
is resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.As a verb vassal
is to treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.vassal
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* vasal (rare)Noun
(wikipedia vassal) (en noun)- The vassals of his anger.
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(vassall)Anagrams
* * ----manbote
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* manbotNoun
(en-noun)- Three weeks later an equal sum, under the name of manbote , was paid to the lord, as a compensation for the loss of his vassal.'' — John Lingard, ''A History of England , 1688.
- If a man was slain a special manbot , or compensation for the loss of a man, had to be paid to the lord side by side with the mægbot to the kin. — NYT, Daily Lexeme:
Maegbot
, 2011 - (quoting H.R. Loyns, 1962)
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