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Praedial

//ˈpɹidi.əl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to land or its products.
  2. 2
    Coming from or from the occupation of land.
  3. 3
    Attached to the land (of slavery etc.); having to work on the land or an estate; deriving from the land.

    "Nothing, for instance, can be more disgraceful to human nature than the state of prædial slavery, or serfs attached to the glebe, when Malabar was under the dominion of the "mild Hindu.""

Noun
  1. 1
    A slave bound to work on the land or an estate.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin praediālis, from Latin praedium (“farm, estate, land”).

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin praediālis, from Latin praedium (“farm, estate, land”).

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