subinˈfeud, v.
[sub- 9 (b).]
1. trans. To grant (estates) by subinfeudation; in quot. absol.
| 1828 J. Hunter More's Life Sir T. More Pref. p. xl, The two great houses of Newmarch and Fitzwilliam held Barnborough. Both subinfeuded. |
2. To give (a person) possession of estates by subinfeudation.
| 1839 Stonehouse Isle of Axholme 291 The Abbot of Newburgh was subinfeuded of a small manor in this parish. |
So subˈinfeudate (occas. -en-) v. trans. = subinfeud 1; also fig.
| 1839 Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 130 A vassal of the crown..might subenfeudate his lands, and have vassals bound to himself as he was to his superior lord. 1897 Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond 100 Justice, we may say, was already being subinfeudated. |