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- IMPOST
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- the top member of a pier or wall upon which the weight of an arch rests.
- INFIDEL
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- anyone having a strong adversity to Christianity, a generic term for "non-Christian."
- INTERDICT
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- the ecclesiastical banning in an area of all sacraments except for baptism and extreme
unction. In general it does not ban high feast days. Used to force persons/institution/community
or secular lords to a view dictated by the church/pope.
- INLAND
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- land exempt from tax (See Warland).
- IONIC
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- elegant column, sometimes fluted, with ram's horn capital.
- JAMBS
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- the sides of a window, doorway or niche.
- JUBILEE
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- year of remission, in which plenary indulgences for sin might be obtained by making
a pilgrimage to Rome.
- JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS
:
- the right by which a lord may sleep first night with the bride of a newly married
serf, although the custom may be avoided by the payment of a fine.
- JUSTICIAR
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- the head of the royal judicial system and the king's viceroy when absent from the
country.
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