a. Law. Also 7 emphyteutike, -tick, 8 emfiteutic. [ad. L. emphyteutic-us in same sense, f. Gr. ἐμφυτεύ-ειν: see EMPHYTEUSIS.] Of the nature of, or held by, EMPHYTEUSIS.
1651. Howell, Venice, 148. Goods Ecclesiastic holden as Emphyteutike.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., III. 232. A tenant … might be ejected from such emphyteutic lands.
1787. J. Townsend, Journ. Spain (1792), III. 328. By the emfiteutic contract the great proprietor … has power to grant any given quantity [of land] for a term of years.
1880. Muirhead, Instit. Gaius, 550. Emphyteutic grants of lands by a municipality.
