Abigeat

//əˈbɪd͡ʒi.ət// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Theft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it. archaic, uncountable

    "But the driving away of goods, or taking away, and detaining, another mans boat, without violence, by the number of 10 preſent, is a wrong, unwarrantable, and oppreſſive act, and a ſort of abigeat and thift, but is not properly a ryot […]"

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cattle rustlingrustling

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"But the driving away of goods, or taking away, and detaining, another mans boat, without violence, by the number of 10 preſent, is a wrong, unwarrantable, and oppreſſive act, and a ſort of abigeat and thift, but is not properly a ryot […]"

Etymology

From Latin abigeatus, from the verb ab agō (“to drive”).

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