praedial
/ˈpriːdiəl/
adjective
- Relating to land, farming, or rural life.
- The region's economy was mostly praedial, with many families working small farms.
- Praedial labor in the 18th century often involved long hours of planting and harvesting.
- The museum displayed old praedial tools like plows and scythes.
- Involving or attached to land as a source of income or obligation.
- Praedial servitudes allow a neighbor to cross your land to reach their property.
- The landlord collected praedial rents based on the size of each tenant's field.
- Under the old system, peasants owed praedial services to the local lord.
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noun
- A person who works on the land; a farm laborer or tenant farmer.
- The praedials gathered at dawn to receive their daily instructions from the bailiff.
- The estate employed dozens of praedials to tend the crops and livestock.
- Each praedial lived in a small cottage on the land they worked.
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