feoff
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
- feoffer noun
- feoffor noun
- unfeoffed adjective
Etymology
Origin of feoff
1250–1300; Middle English feoffen < Anglo-French fe ( o ) ffer, Old French fiefer, derivative of fief fief
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
You are my magic orchard feoff, Where bud and fruit are always ripe.
From Silverpoints by Gray, John
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.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Their compensation Each of these officials held what may be called a benefice, or perhaps a feoff.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
If he did not do this, he would take his feoff from him, and bestow it on another.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
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.
From South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
