Impignorate

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 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

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"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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