(n.) A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
(2) Red cell fraction chemiluminescence was examined in quantum metric equipment with FEU-39A and FEU-140 radiation detectors sensitive to the visible and UV regions.
(3) Per fer més ràpid el procés de verificació de les imatges, us demanem que envieu l’arxiu original, sense modificacions, de les fotografies que feu amb càmera o smartphone.
(4) His friend declared it the best pot-au-feu he had ever tasted and wrote as much in his magazine.
(5) To obtain the knowledge for which we have already paid, we must surrender our feu to the lairds of learning.
(6) The interaction of the ton A, ton B, and feu functions apparently permits quite different "substrates" to overcome the permeability barrier of the outer membrane.
(7) The stew began as an oxtail pot-au-feu from which he discarded the vegetables and bouquet garni and set aside the meat.
(8) We must abandon any notion of ourselves as sophisticated cosmopolitan types with a taste for pot au feu and Iberico ham.
(9) Iron complexed by enterochelin is only transported in the presence of the ton B and feu functions.
(10) The pot-au-feu became Olney's calling card, granting him entry to some of the most august kitchens in Paris and leading to a revolutionary column in Cuisine et Vins de France : "Un Americain (Gourmand) à Paris: le Menu de Richard Olney".
(11) Cells which have lost the feu function are resistant to the colicins B, I or V while ton B mutants are resistant to all 3 colicins.
(12) They serve this Portuguese pot au feu at Tony’s (around €20pp plus wine, Largo da Igreja), where portions are big enough to floor a hungry hobbit.
(13) "Les petits plats qui mijotent au coin du feu is a phrase that is used like a word, and it rarely fails to garnish a conversation about food… It means 'slow cooking stews' but it symbolises 'the good life' and somewhere, shadow-like, behind its words lies a half-remembered state of voluptuous, total wellbeing ( 'Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté, luxe, calme et volupté' )."
(14) It's designated a boring foreign gravy train and consigned to grey oblivion; like, it would seem, 10 years of Nigel dinners at the Pierre Bois et Feu and sundry munching spots, with or without female company.
Feud
Definition:
(n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
(n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
(n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
(2) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
(3) Investigators had said they were investigating various theories, including Islamic extremism and a feud between opposition leaders.
(4) Most controversially, it remains in a long-running feud with CSC over a £3bn agreement to install IT systems in the Midlands, north and east of England.
(5) Leading figures in the social care sector have rushed to voice dismay at the feud.
(6) This week his criticism of Kelly – and thus a reported “feud” with the influential Fox News chief Roger Ailes – flared up again when Trump retweeted a message that called Kelly a “bimbo”.
(7) Yamadayav's extended family has been involved in a bitter clan feud with Kadyrov, and represented one of the few sources of genuine opposition to the president inside the unstable Caucasus republic.
(8) Yesterday's referendum, although not legally binding on the British government, provided a huge blow to the attempts by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, to negotiate an end to the 300-year feud over the Rock with Spain.
(9) We are going to work it out.” Mercedes’ executive director, Toto Wolff, said of the feud: “As long as it isn’t detrimental to the team spirit, as long as it is not underhand, we will handle the situation in the way we did before.
(10) Asked specifically whether he had made a deal with Fox that he and Kelly would not publicly continue their feud, Trump did not deny that he had, adding that he had “no problems” with Fox News .
(11) Rubio’s absence sparked criticism from Cruz, with whom he is locked in a bitter feud.
(12) Grant Shapps, the Conservative chairman, has attempted to cool the feud between the London mayor, Boris Johnson , and allies of George Osborne, saying it is for Johnson to decide whether to try to become an MP before the 2015 general election.
(13) 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen kept hidden a simmering feud with writer John Ridley over credit for the historical biopic's Oscar-winning screenplay, reports The Wrap .
(14) Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, whose feud with Zuckerberg was portrayed in the fictionalised 2010 film The Social Network , have amassed nearly $11m worth of Bitcoins, according to a report in the New York Times in April.
(15) No.” The public feuding kicked off after Farage decided to “un-resign” , going back on his promise to step down after he failed to win his target seat of South Thanet .
(16) The tradition of families exchanging unmarried girls to settle feuds is banned under Pakistani law but still practiced in the country's more conservative, tribal areas.
(17) Further, it only takes a cursory look at Hizb ut-Tahrir’s website to see that they are embroiled in a bitter and ongoing feud with Isis.
(18) [Mercedes technical chief] Paddy Lowe makes the strategy and the strategy was clear from the beginning.” But Lauda knows that Mercedes may have to step in to prevent a season-long feud developing.
(19) In war even if you defeat your tribal enemy, if you have killed eight and they have killed four, you will owe your enemy four that he will kill as revenge.” In the morning the Cat unleashed a massive shelling campaign to force the rivals to stop their feuding and accept mediation.
(20) With increasing numbers leaving the land to look for work in the towns, many young people belong to families embroiled in feuds.