allodian

From Latin allodium + -an.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈləʊdiən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈloʊdiən/
• Rhymes: -əʊdiən

allodian (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Allodial.
   • 1701, Marius D'Assigny, “Of Charles the Second King of Spain, the Thirty fifth Earl of Flanders, the fourth of that Name”, in The History of the Earls and Earldom of Flanders, London:   D. Brown; S. Crouch; J. Taylor; A. Bell, page 276:

     'Tis well known that the French were the firſt Aggreſſors. The pretence was to recover the Patrimonial Rights, or the Allodian Lands and Rents of the Dutcheſs of Orleans, from the Prince Palatine of the Rhine, who had them in poſſeſſion, and to aſſiſt the Prince of Furſtemberg, a Creature of France, in his Pretenſions to the Archbiſhoprick of Cologn.

   • 1870, “History of the Highland Clans”, in John Scott Keltie, editor, History of the Scottish Highlands: Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, volume II, London: William Mackenzie, page 280:

     In memoriam of the Clan Laurin, anciently the allodian inhabitants of Balquhidder and Strathearn, the chief of whom, in the decrepitude of old age, together with his aged and infirm adherents, their wives and children, the widows of their departed kindred– […]

   • 1967, “Treaty of Westphalia. Munster, October 24, 1648”, in Fred L. Israel, editor, Major Peace Treaties of Modern History 1648-1967, volume I, Chelsea House Publishers; McGraw-Hill Book Co., page 14:

     Yet in such case, nevertheless, of the return of the Upper Palatinate to the surviving Palatines, the Heirs of any Allodian Lands of the Bavarian Electors shall remain in Possession of the Rights and Benefices, which may lawfully appertain to them.