单词 | agistator |
释义 | agistatorn. Now historical and rare. = agister n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > agistment > one who agists agistor1594 agistatora1634 agister1677 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > pasturing for rent > person agistatora1634 agister1677 a1634 E. Coke 4th Pt. Inst. Laws of Eng. (1644) lxxiii. 293 Agistator, so called, because he taketh beasts to agistment..his office consisteth in agistando, recipiendo, imbreviando, & certificando. 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. (at cited word) Agistator was the forest officer, who was to take account of the cattel so agisted. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. at Agist They are also called Agistators, to take account of the cattle agisted. 1902 Reliquary & Illustr. Archaeologist Apr. 76 To these courts came the foresters, verderers, and agistators,..the latter being those who had control of the ‘agisting’ or turning out cattle to pasture in the forest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1634 |
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