enfeebler

[Eng.enfeebl(e); -er.] One whc or that which enfeebles, weakens, or enervates. "Bane of every manly art, Sweet enfeebler of the heart!" Philips : Ode to Signora Cuzzino . *en-fel-oned, a. [O. Fr. enfelouni = "become fierce, waxt curst, grown cruel." ( Cotgrave .)] Rendered fierce, cruel, or furious. en-feoff, v . t. [Low Lat. infeofo .] [FIEF.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. In the same sense as II. "If the eldest son enfeoff the second, reserving homage, and that homage paid, and then the second son dies with. out i ue, it will descend to the eldest as heir, and the seignory is extinct." -Hale . *2. To give up, to surrender. "Grew a companion to the common streets, Enfeoffed himself to popularity." *3. To transfer. Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . I. , iii. 2. "It is that which enfeoffes our sinnes upon Christ."Bp. Hall: Old Religion , § 2. II. Law : To invest with a feud, fief, or fee; to bestow or convey any estate in fee-simple or fee tail by livery of seizin.