helotry

(hé’lot-ri or hel’ot-ri), nm. [ -ry.] 1. The condition of a Helot; serfdom; slavery.— 2. Helots in a collective sense; a body of persons in a condition similar to that of the ancient Helots, The Helotry of Mammon are not, in our day, so easily enforced to content themselves as the peasantry of that happy period, as Mr. Southey considers it, which elapsed between the fall of the feudal and the rise of commercial tyranny. Macaulay, Southey's Colloquies.