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AGISTMENT

Volume 1 · 46 words · 1771 Edition

AGISTAGE, or AGISTATION, in law, the taking in other people's cattle to graze at so much per week. It is also used in a metaphorical sense, for any tax, burden, or charge; thus, the tax levied for repairing the banks of Romney marsh was called agi-flamentum.