comital
adjEtymology From oblique stem of Latin comes, comitis (“count, earl, companion, comrade”) + -al. Doublet of comtal.
1
Of or pertaining to a count or earl.
- Comital charters for religious institutions provide important evidence for some aspects of comital lordship, especially the interconnection of landholding, justice, wealth, and military power.2004, Richard Ewing Barton, Lordship of the County of Maine, c. 890-1160, page 51:
- Derived terms
- vicecomital
- Related terms
- baronial, ducal, kingly, margravial, noble, princely, regal, royal, vicontiel, viscomital