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I have just written the word "enfeodate" ...which I meant as "having a forced loyalty to someone or something"...as: "a man enfeodate to the estates of Baron Kent"
I cannot find "enfeodate" in the Webster's International Second Edition.
Have I erred?
If so, is there a word that has that precise meaning?
Any advice gratefully received.
Either here or at vreiter@worldnet.att.net
Thank you in advance.
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welcome, Vivi.
where di you get the word in the first place? did you coin it? the only google hit I get is this thread.
formerly known as etaoin...
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Hi Vivi,
Try "infeodate".
I had never heard of it - but thanks for a new word.
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infeodate only gets a handful of ghits, too. and Oxford, Encarta, M-W, and Cambridge don't have it.
Last edited by etaoin; 10/07/2008 2:43 PM.
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A person on the "lesser" end of a feudatory relationship is a vassal.
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OED2 thinks 'infeudate' is the *correct form (see Law term infeudation), but the only cite it has is from 1706, "That the Rights of Regales and infeodate Tithes would be overturned."
-joe (enfeoffment) friday
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