Sekirov Dictionary

praedial

UK /ˈpɹiːdɪəl/US /ˈpɹidi.əl/

adjective 3
noun 1
forms 3

adjective3

Of or pertaining to land or its products.
Coming from or from the occupation of land.
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Attached to the land (of slavery etc.); having to work on the land or an estate; deriving from the land.
- Nothing, for instance, can be more disgraceful to human nature than the state of praedial slavery, or serfs attached to the glebe, when Malabar was under the dominion of the "mild Hindu." — 1855

noun1

A slave bound to work on the land or an estate.

forms

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