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zombola
02-26-2015, 12:47 PM
\ leej \ , adjective, noun;

1.
Loyal; faithful.

2.
Owing primary allegiance and service to a feudal lord.

3.
Pertaining to the relation between a feudal vassal and lord.

noun: 1.
A feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service.

2.
A feudal vassal or subject.



Quotes:
The materialist, liege to his own system, is incapable of doing anything but put one after another the results of his observations.
-- Agostino Da Montefeltro, Conferences Of; Delivered in Rome During Lent 1889

Subjects were required to give their liege to their lord.
-- Paul L. Williams, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades



Origin:
Liege is of uncertain origin. It either came from the Middle English word leidig meaning "free" or from the Late Latin word for serf, laeticus . Both roots identified the relationship between a vassal, or serf, and his superior.