Definition of agist Agist
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What does agist mean?
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- agist (v. t.)
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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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agist
a-jist′, v.t. to take in the cattle of others to graze for a certain sum: to charge lands or the like with any public burden.—ns. Agist′ment, the action of agisting: the price paid for cattle pasturing on the land: a burden or tax; Agist′or, Agist′er, an officer who takes charge of cattle agisted. [O. Fr. agister—L. jacitāre, jacēre, to lie.]
