Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To use or pledge as collateral security.
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Examples
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Which great quadrant and square woorke, ioyned not fast to the collaterate and sidelying rockes, but was betwixt spaced and seperated on eyther sides tenne paces.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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And in the bending downe ouer the deuision of her breastes, betwixt two great Pearles, there was laced a corruscant rounde Rubie, and vppon the collaterate sides of the sayde Pearles, two glistering Saphires, and two Pearles, next them two
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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