Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
fief . - To invest with a fee or feud; give or grant a fee to; enfeoff.
- To endow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Law) To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.
- noun (Law) A fief. See
fief .
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- noun law A
fief .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a piece of land held under the feudal system
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Examples
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Apostle of Allah (upon whom be peace!) gave in feoff
The Land of Midian 2003
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"I am instructed that Eleusis is in vassalage to Athens now; a feoff of the King's heir, whom, I take it, I have the honor to speak with."
The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
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Lord of the town and province, a feoff of the Mexican Emperor Montezuma
South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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Anas and from Rabíat, who heard from a number of the learned, that the Apostle of Allah (upon whom be peace!) gave in feoff
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Springy of the justly curl about that he lapidarian it laudably and that you feoff to get tillable on sin and showily a rube in the monarch is unsubtle.
Rational Review 2009
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Remainder contingent is dellroyed by feoff - ment and hne, -- 630
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To mock and \cir and feoff At holy things or holy men.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Let the mad world who feoff at them Revile and hate me too.
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(upon whom be peace!) gave in feoff to Bilál bin Háris mines in the district of Fara '(sic).
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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And I was told by Musa’b el-Zubayri, from Malik ibn Anas, that the Apostle of Allah (upon whom be peace!) gave in feoff to Bilál bin Háris mines in the district of Fara’ (sic).
The Land of Midian 2003
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