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Definition enfeoff

Etymology

From Late Middle English enfeffen, enfefe, enfeffe, enfeffee, infeof, infeoff (“to grant (property, rights, etc.) under the feudal system”), from Old French enfeffer, enfieffer (compare Anglo-Latin infeoff?re, 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 *peku-, *pe?u- (“sheep”)). The English word is analysable as en- +‎ feoff.

Verb

enfeoff (third-person singular simple present enfeoffs or (obsolete) enfeoffes, present participle enfeoffing, simple past and past participle enfeoffed)

1. (transitive, chiefly law, historical) To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To give up completely; to surrender, to yield.

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