SUBINFEUDATE

subinfeudate (s[schwa]b-in-fyoo-dayt), vb. Hist. (Of a subvassal) to grant land to another, who then holds the land as the grantor’s vassal rather than as the vassal of the grantor’s superior. — Also termed subinfeud (s[schwa]b-in-fyood). “[A] more common method of obtaining the annual quota of knights was to subinfeudate portions of the baronial lands to […]