enfeoff

• 历史法律动词，指授予某人封地或封建领地，使其拥有自由持有土地的权利。

A historical legal verb meaning to give someone a fief or feudal estate; to invest with a freehold interest in land.

1. Grant land in feudal tenureC2formalbritish

   To invest someone with a freehold estate in land in exchange for a pledge of service or loyalty, as practiced in feudal society.

   授予封地

   • The king enfeoffed his loyal knight with vast estates in the north.
   • Under feudal law, the lord would enfeoff a vassal with land in return for military service.
   • The ceremony was held to formally enfeoff the baron with the manor.

   同义词conveyfeoffgrantinvest

   反义词dispossessdivest