Impignorate
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To pledge or pawn. UK, obsolete, transitive
"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"
Example
More examples"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"
Etymology
From Latin impignoratus, p. pl. of impignorare (“to pawn”). See pignoration.
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