impignorate

English

Etymology

From Latin impignoratus, p. pl. of impignorare (“to pawn”). See pignoration.

Verb

impignorate (third-person singular simple present impignorates, present participle impignorating, simple past and past participle impignorated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pledge or pawn.
   • 1904, Gilbert Goudie, The Celtic and Scandinavian antiquities of Shetland:

     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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “impignorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)