impignorate

English

Etymology

From Latin impignoratus, perfect passive participle of impignorare (“to pawn”). See pignoration.

Verb

impignorate (third-person singular simple present impignorates, present participle impignorating, simple past and past participle impignorated)

1. (obsolete, UK, chiefly Scotland, law, transitive) To pledge or pawn.
   • 1904, Gilbert Goudie, The Celtic and Scandinavian antiquities of Shetland:

     the actial delivery to the lender of the impignorated lands — is clearly the feature of the deed, and the transaction may therefore be described more accurately as a pawn or wadset than as a mortgage in its modern sense

References

• “impignorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.