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Tanistry
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tanistry'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/tanistry.html. 1828.