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Infest vs Infeft - What's the difference?

infest | infeft |

As verbs the difference between infest and infeft

is that infest is to inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers while infeft is .

As an adjective infest

is (obsolete) mischievous; hurtful; harassing.

infest

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers
    • Insects are infesting my basement!
  • (pathology, of a parasite) To invade a host plant or animal

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) mischievous; hurtful; harassing
    • (Spenser)

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    infeft

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1843 , '', book 2, chapter XII, ''The Abbot’s Troubles
    • he alleged farther that his predecessors had been infeft , at the Conquest, in the lands of Alfric son of Wisgar, who was Lord of by all persons.
  • * 1885 ,
    • […] while a minor he received a dispensation and special license from the king, dated 8 Jan. 1608, upon which by a precept from chancery he was infeft in all the lands possessed by his father on 26, 27, 28 and 29 April.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1980 , year_published=2008 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Ann Morton, Gordon Donaldson , title=British National Archives and the Local Historian , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Historical Association , isbn= , page= , passage=Not only had a vassal to be infeft' when a grant was made or confirmed: a successor had to be ' infeft when he took up his inheritance. }}