agist

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman agister (to pasture for a fee).

Verb

agist (third-person singular simple present agists, present participle agisting, simple past and past participle agisted)

  1. (transitive) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.
  2. (transitive) To charge lands etc. with any public burden.

See also

Anagrams