[f. as prec. + -IST.]
1. a. A representative of the feudal system.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XII. 268/2. The central one, a pile of tall, grim houses, that look like the walls of a fortress, ascending in continued battlement and rampart, till they close in a black and haughty mass crowned with batteries, the Castle [of Edinburgh], the architectural chieftain of those grey and rugged feudalists below.
1831. Crayons fr. Commons, 28.
| Most falsely has this personage been lauded, | |
| And countless puffs, eulogiums out of number, | |
| Were wafted from the Thames across the Humber, | |
| To make each Border feudalist rejoice | |
| That G—M’s tongue engaged the nation’s voice. |
b. An adherent or supporter of the feudal system.
1870. Daily News, 6 Sept., 4. Those wretched feudalists [the Prussians].
1874. Maurice, Friendship Bks., v. 149. That kind of civilization which I said the feudalists could not give.
1888. Truth, 19 July, 98/1. The Emperor is far more of a feudalist than the Prince [Bismarck].
2. One learned in feudal law; = FEUDIST.
