enfeoff

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɛnˈfɛf/|/ɪnˈfɛf/|/ɛnˈfiːf/|/ɪnˈfiːf/    美 /ɛnˈfɛf/|/ɪnˈfɛf/|/ɛnˈfiːf/|/ɪnˈfiːf/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest. historical,transitive
    — Suppose a man bargains to enfeoff me, as in our case here, and he afterwards enfeoffs another, and then he re-enters [i.e. on the first feoffee] and enfeoffs me, and the other ousts me. Now here the action of covenant may not be brought, because he has at last enfeoffed me according to his covenant, and yet the deceit remains upon which an action may be based. Wherefore it does not always follow that where there is a covenant the action of deceit will not lie.
  2. To give up completely; to surrender, to yield. figuratively,transitive
    — [M]ore than one well-wisher who observed Ethelberta from afar feared that it might some day come to be said of her that she had / Enfeoffed herself to popularity: / That, being daily swallow'd by men's eyes, / They surfeited with honey, and began / To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little / More than a little is by much too much.

词形变化

enfeoffs present,singular,third-person enfeoffes obsolete,present,singular,third-person enfeoffing participle,present enfeoffed participle,past enfeoffed past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template enfeoff infinitive enfeoff first-person,present,singular enfeoffed first-person,past,singular enfeoff present,second-person,singular enfeoffest archaic,present,second-person,singular enfeoffed past,second-person,singular enfeoffedst archaic,past,second-person,singular enfeoffs present,singular,third-person enfeoffeth archaic,present,singular,third-person enfeoffed past,singular,third-person enfeoff plural,present enfeoffed past,plural enfeoff present,subjunctive enfeoffed past,subjunctive enfeoff imperative,present - imperative,past enfeoffing participle,present enfeoffed participle,past infeff alternative infeft alternative infeoff alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
enfeoffment
相关词
fee feoff feoffee feoffer feoffor feofor feoffment fief refeoff

词源

From Late Middle English enfeffen, enfeoffen (“to grant (property, rights, etc.) under the feudal system”) [and other forms], from Old French enfeffer, enfieffer (compare Anglo-Latin infeoffāre, Anglo-Norman enfeoffer), from en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + fief (“estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock, especially sheep or cattle”)). The English word is analysable as en- + feoff.
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