Definition of Enserfed

1. enserf [v] - See also: enserf

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enserfed

enseeling
enseels
enseint
ensellure
ensellures
ensemble
ensembles
ensembling
ensemblist
ensemblists
ensepulcher
ensepulchered
ensepulchering
ensepulchers
enserf
enserfed (current term)
enserfing
enserfment
enserfments
enserfs
ensew
ensewed
ensewing
ensews
enshackle
ensheath
ensheathe
ensheathed
ensheathes
ensheathing

Literary usage of Enserfed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1895)
"And note that tenants who are free and quit of all services become enserfed by contracts made between lords and tenants. And there are divers kinds of ..."

2. The Economic Foundations of Society by Achille Loria (1899)
"... and with it a fresh alliance between capital and unproductive labourers, who were now employed anew in coercing the enserfed classes. ..."

3. America Vindicated from European Theologico-political and Infidel Aspersions by Thomas J. Vaiden (1855)
"It acquired vast possessions from the people, and held all with ambitious, avaricious tenacity, and would have mentally enserfed the whole of Europe to its ..."

4. Human Submission by Morrison Isaac Swift (1905)
"... was the price they paid for seeking intelligent improvement of human ways. They who preferred peace and industry to war were enslaved or enserfed. ..."

5. The Russian Revolution by Frank Alfred Golder, Robert Joseph Kerner, Samuel Northrup Harper, Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1918)
"... appeared in modern times as a nation which had lost its native nobility and had been reduced to a disarmed, untutored, and enserfed peasantry. ..."

6. Gallio: The Prize Poem on a Sacred Subject, 1908 by St. John Lucas (1908)
"Poor heritors of the great-thewed clan that launched The earliest trireme on a startled wave, Those keen Corinthian sea-hawks who enserfed Corcyra, ..."

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