A vassal is a person who has pledged loyalty and service to a higher-ranking individual, usually a lord or monarch. The vassal receives protection and land in return for their loyalty and obedience. Full definition
To be sure, there are scholars who would take issue with this statement about Jesus» silence and would claim that his ethical teaching was intended primarily to apply to the political situation in which his people found themselves as vassals of Rome and that he was seeking to point a way out of the disastrous impasse of war toward which he saw his country heading. (religion-online.org)
The local community withstood the attentions of both the viscounts of Limoges and the King and saw themselves as vassals only of the vatican. (harpergites.com)
If you're like me you'll probably take to mucking around with genetic manipulation or randomly declaring war so you have something to do, forcing other empires to become vassals just for the hell of it.. (wolfsgamingblog.com)