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noun
Vassals collectively; the men a feudal lord can call upon in wartime.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
Homage, allegiance; support of one's feudal superior.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
The leader of a troop or retinue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable
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noun
The primal substance of the Universe
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: Celtic paganism
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History
Inherited from Middle English manrede, manred, from Old English manrǣden (“dependence, homage, service, tribute, due”), equivalent to man + -red and a doublet of manrent. The expected Modern English form would be mandred (like kindred < Middle English kynrede), but the loss of the term from the spoken vernacular has arrested its normal phonological development (this also accounts for the pronunciation /ˈmænɹɛd/).
Borrowed from Welsh manred (“atom, mote”), formed from mân (“small”) + rhed (“course, flow”) in the 19th century.
