Definition of "seigneurial" [seign•eu•ri•al]

• Of or relating to a seigneur (adjective)
• Befitting a seigneur (adjective)

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• "The Genoveses 'emphasis on "the world the slaveholders made" (which, at times, indulges in its own romanticism about the paternalistic impulses of planters and their "seigneurial" way of life) seemed to Gutman erroneous because it did not adequately explain what the slaves themselves had experienced."
• "On the question of the "'seigneurial' way of life" of Southern planters, Kazin might consult the introduction to the Wesleyan University Press edition of The World the Slaveholders Made (1988) in which Genovese notes,"
• "Eddie, a medic wearing a flight suit stitched with a logo that reads "Nam Power," hops out, hustles to Seth and takes control with seigneurial assertion."