English Dictionary

enfeoff

IPA（発音記号）

/ɛnˈfɛf/

動詞

歴史的 他動詞 比喩的用法

(transitive, chiefly law, historical) To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest.

日本語の意味

封地（あるいは封土）を与える、授与すること。 / 封建制度において、土地や領地の支配権を法的に移譲する行為。

The monarch planned to enfeoff his commander with a fief as a reward.

君主は報酬として司令官に領地を授けることを計画していた。

意味（1）

(transitive, chiefly law, historical) To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest.

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.]

意味（2）

(transitive, figuratively) To give up completely; to surrender, to yield.

[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.

enfeoffs （ present singular third-person ）

enfeoffes （ obsolete present singular third-person ）

enfeoffing （ participle present ）

enfeoffed （ participle past ）

enfeoffed （ past ）

（ table-tags ）

en-conj （ inflection-template ）

enfeoff （ infinitive ）