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.

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.

Hi Vivi,
Try "infeodate".
I had never heard of it - but thanks for a new word.

infeodate only gets a handful of ghits, too. and Oxford, Encarta, M-W, and Cambridge don't have it.

A person on the "lesser" end of a feudatory relationship is a vassal.

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

That makes sense.