LIEGE

liege

(adjective) owing or owed feudal allegiance and service; “one’s liege lord”; “a liege subject”

Liege, Luik

(noun) city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium

liege, liege lord

(noun) a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service

vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory

(noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

liege (plural lieges)

A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.

(in full liege lord) A king or lord.

The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.

Adjective

liege (not comparable)

Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance.

Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, such as a vassal to his lord; faithful.

(obsolete, legal) Full; perfect; complete; pure.

Source: Wiktionary

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Liege, a. Etym: [OE. lige, lege, F. lige, LL. ligius, legius, liege, unlimited, complete, prob. of German origin; cf. G. ledig free from bonds and obstacles, MHG. ledec, ledic, lidic, freed, loosed, and Charta Ottonis de Benthem, ann. ligius homo quod Teutonicè dicitur ledigman," i. e., uni soli homagio obligatus, free from all obligations to others; influenced by L.ligare to bind. G. ledig perh. orig. meant, free to go where one pleases, and is perh. akin to E.lead to conduct. Cf. Lead to guide.]

1. Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord. Chaucer. She looked as grand as doomsday and as grave; And he, he reverenced his liege lady there. Tennyson.

2. serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.

3. (Old Law)

Definition: Full; perfect; complete; pure. Burrill. Liege homage (Feudal Custom), that homage of one sovereign or prince to another which acknowledged an obligation of fealty and services.

– Liege poustie Etym: [L. legitima potestas] (Scots Law), perfect, i. e., legal, power; specif., having health requisite to do legal acts.

– Liege widowhood, perfect, i. e., pure, widowhood. [Obs.]

Liege, n.

1. A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign. Mrs. Browning. The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. Shak.

2. The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman. A liege lord seems to have been a lord of a free band; and his lieges, though serving under him, were privileged men, free from all other obligations, their name being due to their freedom, not to their service. Skeat.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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