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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 en·feoff /ɪnˈfɛf, ˈfif, ɛn-/
 (vt.)授予封地,授予領地,授予采邑,轉讓

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 En·feoff v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfeoffed p. pr. & vb. n. Enfeoffing.]
 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.
 2. To give in vassalage; to make subservient. [Obs.]
    [The king] enfeoffed himself to popularity.   --Shak.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 enfeoff
      v : put in possession of land in exchange for a pledge of
          service, in feudal society; "He enfeoffed his son-in-law
          with a large estate in Scotland"