ENFEOFF

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)