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agist |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Agist \A*gist"\, v. t. [OF. agister; [`a] (L. ad) + gister to assign a lodging, fr giste lodging, abode, F. g[^i]te, LL gistum gista, fr L. jacitum p. p. of jac?re to lie: cf LL agistare adgistare See {Gist}.] (Law) 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 --Blackstone.
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