Enfeoff /(?; see Feoff, 277)/

imp. & p. p. Enfeoffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfeoffing

1. 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. (Law)
2. To give in vassalage; to make subservient. [Obs.]

   [The king] enfeoffed himself to popularity.