En*feoff" Enfeoffing.] [Pref. en- + feoff, fief: cf. LL. infeofare, OF. enfeffer, enfeofer.]
1. Law
To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment.
Mozley & W.
2.
To give in vassalage; to make subservient.
[Obs.]
[The king] enfeoffed himself to popularity.
Shak.
© Webster 1913.