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Definition of Agist
1. 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.
Definition of Agist
1. Verb. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agist
1. to feed and take care of for a fee, as livestock [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agist
Literary usage of Agist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of the Reports of Cases, the Statutes, and Ecclesiastical Laws by Francis King Eagle, Edward Younge (1826)
"L/ But if a man agist profitable cattle, and such as yield a tithe in kind, aa
sheep cording to the that yield tithe wool, and lambs, there the owner of the ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1825)
"But a man cannot agist his own land with goats and sheep, ... And he may agist
with another's swine, after the king has agisted his demesnes. ..."
3. Negligence in Law by Thomas Beven (1908)
"If, however, a man had only common by a specialty in a certain place and had no
cattle of his own to common he was not allowed to agist other men's cattle.4 ..."
4. A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the by Alexander Mansfield Burrill (1850)
"9. Spelman. To adjust or assess a tax, or duty. Id. To feed or pasture cattle ;
to feed other animals ; to agist. Ducere possit porcos sues per dominicum ..."
5. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"agist and agistment, again, applied originally to the open places where the deer
congregate and lie in the spring, meant, "in our common law, to take in and ..."
6. Collections for a History of Staffordshire. by William Salt Archaeological Society (1884)
"As regards the ordinary pasturage, no man could agist his beasts within the King's
forest but one who was an inhabitant of the forest, and had common ..."
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