v. Obs. Also 7 envassaile, -all, invassal, -el. [f. EN-1 + VASSAL.] trans. To reduce to the condition of a vassal; to reduce to servitude or subjection; to make subservient to. Also fig.
1605. Daniel, Queen’s Arcadia, Wks. (1717), 165. That intolerable Misery, Whereto Affection now invassels me.
1609. Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Cath., 60. Awing our Princes, enuassaling our Prelates.
1647. Cudworth, Serm. 1 John ii. 3–4 (1676), 57. Many of us … have our minds … envassalled to Riches, Gain, Profit.
1660. Fuller, Mixt Contempl. (1841), 194. They would have seized on our persons too, and have envassalled us for ever unto them.
Hence Envassalled ppl. a., Envassaling vbl. sb.
1609. Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Cath., 25. Yeelded vnto by timorous Princes, ambitious and tumultuous Prelates; enuassalled Parasites.
1642. Vind. Parl., in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), V. 275. For the strength and safety, and not inflaming or invassaling of his subjects and people.
