Sentence:  Nothing, for instance, can be more disgraceful to human nature than the state of <WSD>prædial</WSD> slavery, or serfs attached to the glebe, when Malabar was under the dominion of the "mild Hindu." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Attached to the land (of slavery etc.); having to work on the land or an estate; deriving from the land.