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单词 enfeoff
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enfeoffv.

/ɛnˈfɛf/
Forms: α. Middle English enfeffe, enfefe, 1500s enfeoffe, Middle English– enfeoff. Also Middle English enfeffee. β. Middle English–1600s infeof(f, 1500s infeffe, 1600s infeft. Also 1500s infeoffee. See also enfief v.
Etymology: < Old French enfeffer, enfieffer (Anglo-Norman enfeoffer ), < en- (see en- prefix1) + fief fief n. In Anglo-Latin infeoffāre.
1.
a. transitive. To invest with a fief; to put (a person) in possession of the fee-simple or fee-tail of lands, tenements, etc. Also absol. Const. in, of, †on, later with; also simply.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > grant as fief > invest with fief
enfeoff1400
afefea1500
enfief1861
α.
1400–50 Alexander 2793 [Alexander] enfeffid þaim belyue, In palais, in prouince, in principall regnes.
1411 Sir T. Langeford in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 18 Y pray alle ȝow þat bene enfeffeed in my londes..þat ȝe fulfylle my forseyd wylle.
1426 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 71 Þay wolde enfeffe Philippe Dene on vj marces of rente.
1467 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 172 Karowe and I withe oder waren enfefed in a howese and land.
1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xvi. f. xxxixv The grauntoure enfeffeth the grauntee of one of the sayde acres.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F3 I will infeofe faire Margret in all.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ix. 522/2 The Scottish King claimed that Country from King Iohn, who by his deed enfeoffed him thereof.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 78 We..shall take such tenements into our hand, and shall enfeoffe others therein.
1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1815) IV. 308 A criminal..is..enfeoffed with an estate.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 43 If the lord enfeoffs another of the tenancy, this makes the land frank fee.
1837 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xi. 69 Charles II..enfeoffed his brother, with the country between Pemaquid and the St. Croix.
1840 R. H. Barham Spectre of Tappington in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 17 The veteran was enfeoffed in the lands and manor.
β. 1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 12. §5 Tenementes whereof they by this Acte be infeoffed.1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iii. f. 93 If a man seased of lande in fee doe infeoffee a straunger.1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. K The sonne seeks the death of the father, that he may be infeoffed in his wealth.1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 42 b Whosoeuer is disabled by the Common Law to take, is disabled to infeoffe.1640 Canterburians Self-Conviction 99 They set up a rubricke, seasing and infefting the officiating Priest in the halfe of all the oblations.a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 141 Richard Gilpin..was infeoffed..in the Lordship of Kent-mire-hall by the Baron of Kendal.1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 566 He should infeofe her in a jointure of 40,000 crowns a year out of the dutchy of Berry.
b. transferred and figurative.
ΚΠ
α.
1460 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 64 For strengthe, ner force, may nat atteyne certayne a wille þat stant enfeffyd in Fraunchise.
1530 Thorpe's Examinacion sig. B.iiiv This office yt ye wolde now enfeffe me with.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 87v The Fathers of our earthly bodies..cannot..enfeofe vs in glory perpetuall.
1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) viii. 247 The commodity is yours, for whose good we are enfeoffed with this power.
1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. xvi. 280 The fish in which they had enfeoffed themselves at the expense of Nannie Fizzle.
β. a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1886) I. 43 To set before us this flesh; and..to infeoffe us in it.a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 673 Infeoffing them in a Land flowing with Milk and Honey.
2. To hand over as a fief; to surrender, give up entirely. figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)]
forsakec893
forlet971
to reach upOE
agiveOE
yield?c1225
uptake1297
up-yield1297
yield1297
deliverc1300
to-yielda1375
overgivec1384
grant1390
forbeara1400
livera1400
forgoc1400
upgive1415
permit1429
quit1429
renderc1436
relinquish1479
abandonc1485
to hold up?1499
enlibertyc1500
surrender1509
cess1523
relent1528
to cast up?1529
resignate1531
uprender1551
demit1563
disclaim1567
to fling up1587
to give up1589
quittance1592
vail1593
enfeoff1598
revoke1599
to give off1613
disownc1620
succumb1632
abdicate1633
delinquish1645
discount1648
to pass away1650
to turn off1667
choke1747
to jack up1870
chuck up (the sponge)1878
chuckc1879
unget1893
sling1902
to jack in1948
punt1966
to-leave-
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 69 The skipping king..Enfeoft himselfe to popularitie. View more context for this quotation
1610 Histrio-mastix v. 251 Hee that is most infeoft to Tyrannie.
1833 H. Coleridge Poems I. 46 The choicest terms are now enfeoff'd to folly.
1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley I. ii. 12 The weak lot which is enfeoffed to popularity.

Draft additions September 2012

transitive. To grant (property or land) to someone as a fief. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1430 in H. M. Flasdieck Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1926) 93 All the castels, maners, londes, tenementes..that weren sumtyme to the ffader and aiell of the seid Erle, or any of hem, or to other enfeffed to here vse.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 422 The which place Alisaundir of Eynysham and Anneys his wyf gaf..and enfeffed by there owne charter.
1548 N. Bodrugan Epitome Title to Souereigntie Scotl. sig. g.vii They haue a lawe that if the father (though by the kynges licence) infeffe or geue landes to his sonne, yet if afterwarde the same father trespas the law, his offence shall forfeite this land.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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