Fief is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FIEF in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a feudal estate
• an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service; a fee.
• land granted by a lord in return for war service
• An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.
• a piece of land held under the feudal system
• a person's sphere of operation or control.

Words related to FIEF

feoff14 fiefs11

Words that contain FIEF

fiefs11 fiefdom16 fiefdoms17

How to use FIEF in a sentence

• This privilege was so much accepted, that the long tenure of a fief ended by ennobling the commoner.
• The territorial fief, which was given to those soldlers who had deserved it by their military services, involved from the holders a personal service to the King.
• They help the Emperor to win a critical battle, and by way of reward Faust receives a vast tract of swampy sea-shore as his fief.
• Poictesme being now a vacant fief, King Ferdinand ennobled Manuel, and made him Count of Poictesme.
• If they left the land which made them liable to this tyranny, their heritage reverted of right to the proprietor of the fief.
• If a lesser baron had subdivided his fief among certain knights and squires, the peasants owed allegiance, not to him, but to the squire to whom they had been assigned.
• The time was almost feudal, but wilder and richer than any feudal day, in that fief tribute was unknown.
• Then the King restored to his friend the fief that was stolen from him, and gave such rich gifts, moreover, as I cannot tell.
• Sicily was to be held by a tribute of money and service, as a fief of the holy see, and was never to be united with the empire.
• The tenure of a great French fief by the brother of the English king was a fresh security against the aggressions of the kings of France and Sicily.
• As in Flanders, he found two rival nations contending in the bosom of a single French fief.
• In 1361 John had availed himself of the death of Philip of Rouvres to treat the duchy of Burgundy as a lapsed fief, and conferred it on his youngest son, Philip the Bold.
• The fief reverted to the Church, and Paul induced the Cardinals to sanction his investiture of Ottavio Farnese with its rights and honors.
• Meanwhile Guntram went on his way, and was at length invested with his fief.
• The exit of Tadanao was promptly followed by the induction of his infant son Mitsunaga into his fief.
• His son Heima inherited the devotion, as well as the fief, of the father.
• Samon had gifted much of his new fief as temple land, and on the old maps of the day this part of Edo is a blood red splash, indication of these many establishments.
• On the contrary, this princess formed the great project, which at last she happily effected, of uniting to the crown Brittany, the last and most independent fief of the monarchy.
• The seneschal put in the place of the said Gauttier the son of the Sire de Jallanges, whose fief was held from Roche-Corbon.
• Such is the fief of Les Touches, from which the Revolution lopped its feudal rights.
• The Bensos acquired possession of the fief of Santena and of the old fastness of Cavour in the province of Pignerolo.
• He was crowned, not in Italy, but at Lyons, and took up his residence at Avignon, a papal fief in Provence, on the French borders.
• Schleswig was outside the Confederation, as it had been outside the German Empire, and had in old days been a fief of the Kingdom of Denmark.
• Velor was once fief to Fontevreault, but the abbey is now turned into a prison.
• That fief, indeed, was among the early grants of the French governors of Canada, but it is not included in the claim which the French themselves set up.
• The rude independence of the Northmen is well illustrated by their behavior when called to court to do homage for this new fief.
• They halted him with a treaty of peace that offered to set Valdemar free if he would take his kingdom as a fief of the German crown.
• But the uniformity of the fief, like that of the manor and the town, was compatible with much isolation.
• Just as there were local customs of the manor, the town, and the fief, there must have been local dialects of villages and even of hamlets.
• It seized on the school as the means to hold the minds of men in fief, just as had the mediaeval Church, and in doing so enforced and perpetuated the national differences.
• From a fief of England, Scotland had become an indomitable nation.
• Then will I give him full half of Spain to hold in fief.

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