Tanistry is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 270 anagrams from letters in tanistry (ainrstty).
First recorded in 1590-1600; tanist + -ry
tanistry continued in force there until the beginning of the last century.
Notwithstanding the above decision, it is probable that a description of tanistry and gavelkind does not exhaust the subject.
Freehold and leasehold, primogeniture and entail, took the place of tribal ownership and tanistry.
The law of succession, called tanaisteacht, or tanistry, is one of the most peculiar of the Brehon laws.
The customs of "gavelkinde" and "tanistry" were attended with the same absurdity in the distribution of property.
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