enfeoff
verbEtymology
From Late Middle English enfeffen, enfeoffen (“to grant (property, rights, etc.) under the feudal system”) [and other forms], from Old French enfeffer, enfieffer (compare Anglo-Latin infeoffāre, Anglo-Norman enfeoffer), from en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + fief (“estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock, especially sheep or cattle”)). The English word is analysable as en- + feoff.
- derived from enfeffer
Definitions
To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief
To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest.
- I have infeffed Richarde Pygot, sarjeaunt of the lawe, John Norton, knyght, John Pygott of Rypon, gentilman, and Sir Thomas Nobull, prest, in lands and tenements within the fraunchese of Rypon, [...]
- And all this he [Pope Pius V] doth to enfeoff the pope with that fulness of power wherunto he entitleth Peter.
To give up completely
To give up completely; to surrender, to yield.
The neighborhood
- neighborfee
- neighborfeoff
- neighborfeoffee
- neighborfeoffer
- neighborfeoffor
- neighborfeofor
- neighborfeoffment
- neighborfief
- neighborrefeoff
Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA