enfeoff

1. 1.

   put in possession of land in exchange for a pledge of service, in feudal society

   “He enfeoffed his son-in-law with a large estate in Scotland”

   Broadergive

Other forms of enfeoff

past tense

enfeoffed·

present participle

enfeoffing·

third person

enfeoffs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enfeoff

What does enfeoff mean?

enfeoff means "put in possession of land in exchange for a pledge of service, in feudal society".

How many syllables are in enfeoff?

enfeoff has 3 syllables: en-fe-off. The stress falls on "en".

Is enfeoff a common word?

enfeoff is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.