Enfeoff
Enfeoff (?; see Feoff, 277) , transitive verb
[Prefix en- + feoff, fief: compare Late Latin infeofare, Old French 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. [Obsolete]
[The king] enfeoffed himself to popularity.