enserf

present singular third person enserfs · participle present enserfing · participle past enserfed · past enserfed

1. To make into a serf.

   It certainly did not denounce as sinful the movement to enserf a large section of the population, any more than it had challenged slavery in the ancient world; that was hardly surprising, since very often great monasteries like Cluny were in the forefront of imposing serfdom on their tenants.

   2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 369