Etymology

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Anglo-Norman agister
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  1. Anglo-Norman · derived fromagister“to pasture for a fee”
  2. English todayagist

From Anglo-Norman agister (“to pasture for a fee”).

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