manorial, a.
(məˈnɔərɪəl)
[f. manor + -ial.]
Of or pertaining to a manor or manors; incidental to a manor. (Cf. manerial.)
| 1785 Paley Mor. & Polit. Philos. vi. xi. (1786) 634 This tenure [the right of common] is also usually embarrassed by the interference of manorial claims. 1794 Southey Wat Tyler iii. i. Poet. Wks. II. 47 They have..demanded the abolition of personal slavery, vassalage and manorial rights. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. iii. 332 His tomb in the old manorial church. 1876 Digby Real Prop. i. §i. 8 These functions devolved in later times partly on the manorial court. 1890 Sir F. Pollock Oxford Lect. 129 The administration of a manorial domain. |
Hence maˈnorialism, the manorial system; maˈnorializing vbl. n., making manorial (attrib. in quots.).
| 1897 Maitland Domesday & Beyond 138 We shall have the utmost difficulty if we would go behind manorialism. 1898 ― Township & Borough 45 A time when the feudalizing and manorializing processes are at work. 1918 Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 70 The king..must forestall the lord's manorializing tendency by adding these thegns and freemen to his own estates. |