Feudalism, or the Feudal system, that system which prevailed in Europe during the Middle Ages and in England from the Norman Conquest, by which vassals held their lands from the lord-superior on condition of military service when required, for “the extreme unction day” of which see Carlyle's “French Revolution,” vol. i. Bk. 4.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Fetichism * Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas