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ENFEOFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put in possession of land in exchange for a pledge of service, in feudal society
Example:
He enfeoffed his son-in-law with a large estate in Scotland
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "enfeoff" is one way to...):
give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Derivation:
enfeoffment (under the feudal system, the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service)
