afforestation

[AFFOREST.] The act or proce of converting cultivated land into forest; the state of being so transmuted. "The charter de Forest a was to reform the encroachments made in the time of Richard I. and Henry II., who had made new afforestations , and much extended the rigour of the forest laws."-Hale. Com . Law of Eng . ăf-for-ěst-ěd, pa. par. & a. [AFFOREST.] af-for-est-ing, pr. par. [AFFOREST.]