a. [f. BARONY + -AL 1.] Of or pertaining to a baron or the barons; befitting the rank of a baron.
1767. Ld. Lyttelton, Hist. Hen. II., Introd. 43 (T.). If he had exempted these lands from the policy, to which he subjected other baronial possessions, it would have exceedingly diminished the strength of his kingdom.
1837. Howitt, Rur. Life, I. iii. (1862), 20. Some splendid baronial Castle, as Warwick, Alnwick, or Raby.
1863. Cox, Inst. Eng. Govt., I. vii. 63. The bishops of the new sees … never had any estate by baronial tenure.
