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agistor

English

Etymology

agist +? -or

Noun

agistor (plural agistors)

  1. One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
  2. (historical) an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

Related terms

  • agistment

Anagrams

  • Rastogi, agorist, orgiast

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agister

English

Noun

agister (plural agisters)

  1. Alternative form of agistor

Anagrams

  • Gaiters, Staiger, aigrets, gaiters, seagirt, stagier, strigae, tirages, triages

Old French

Verb

agister (Anglo-Norman)

  1. to agist (take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum)
  2. to pasture (an animal)

Descendants

  • ? English: agist
  • Middle French: agister

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (agister, supplement)
  • agister on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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