agistment

[ uh-jist-ment ]

noun

, Obsolete.

1. the act of agisting.
2. a contract or an agreement to agist.
3. the fee paid or the profit made in agisting.

Word History and Origins

Origin of agistment¹

First recorded in 1605–15; agist + -ment

Example Sentences

Within months the family made the decision to get them all off the property into agistment – paying to graze them on greener routes elsewhere.

From The Guardian

The modus for tithe lands shall be double for the two first years after the induction of a new vicar, and every person keeping a plough shall pay yearly 1d. in lieu and full satisfaction of agistment of barren cattle.”

From Project Gutenberg

Fifty acres of grass, well fenced, will, at agistment, bring in tucker and a bit over after the first year, even if you don't use it yourself.

From Project Gutenberg

Both the pasturage and the payment were called “agistment.”

From Project Gutenberg

But then the tithe of pasture agistment, as it was called, could no longer have been evaded.

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