verb
- invested with a fief or fee; put in possession of a feudal holding or property
Usage: archaic; legal/historical; past tense and past participle of enfeoff
Examples
- The king enfeoffed the knight with lands in the northern territory.
- Once enfeoffed, the vassal owed allegiance and military service to his lord.
- The charter enfeoffed the monastery with extensive holdings.
- He was enfeoffed with the estate in a formal ceremony.
- The lord enfeoffed his son with the family's ancestral lands.