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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of pledging or pawning.
  2. n. In civil law, the holding of cattle that have done damage as security till satisfaction is made. See pignus.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The act of pledging or pawning.
  2. n. law The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, until compensation is made.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of pledging or pawning.
  2. n. (Civil Law) The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made.

Etymologies

  1. Latin pignoratio, Latin pigneratio, from pignerate to pledge, from pignus, gen. pignous and pigneris, a pledge, a pawn: compare French pignoration. (Wiktionary)

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  • oroboros To pledge or pawn (obsolete). Aug 30, 2008

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