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feoff

[ fef, feef ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to invest with a fief or fee; enfeoff.


feoff

/ ´Ú¾±Ë´Ú /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of fief
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to invest with a benefice or fief
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ´Ú±ð´Ç´Ú´Ú´Ç°ù, noun
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • ´Ú±ð´Ç´Úf´Ç°ù ´Ú±ð´Ç´Ú´Úİù noun
  • ³Ü²Ô·´Ú±ð´Ç´Ú´Ú±ð»å adjective
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of feoff1

1250–1300; Middle English feoffen < Anglo-French fe ( o ) ffer, Old French fiefer, derivative of fief fief
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of feoff1

C13: from Anglo-French feoffer , from feoff a fief
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Example Sentences

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Feoffee′, the person invested with the fief; Feoff′er, Feoff′or, he who grants the fief; Feoff′ment, the gift of a fief or feoff.

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If he did not do this, he would take his feoff from him, and bestow it on another.

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Their compensation Each of these officials held what may be called a benefice, or perhaps a feoff.

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You are my magic orchard feoff, Where bud and fruit are always ripe.

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She was the daughter of the Cacique of Tenepal, who was Lord of the town and province, a feoff of the Mexican Emperor Montezuma Xocoyotzin.

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