ownage

What it means

1. archaicrareuncountableownership

   I Alone, of all the Graecians, haue not obteined the estate of a Monarche by extertion, neither haue I taken any thing, that was not mine owne by vsurpation: for I am by byrth, a Cecropian, I challenge that vnto me by right of ownage, ...

   1576, Pisistratus, translated by Abraham Flemming, A panoplie of epistles

In a sentence

I Alone, of all the Graecians, haue not obteined the estate of a Monarche by extertion, neither haue I taken any thing, that was not mine owne by vsurpation: for I am by byrth, a Cecropian, I challenge that vnto me by right of ownage, ...

1576, Pisistratus, translated by Abraham Flemming, A panoplie of epistles

Where it comes from

* own (“to have rightful possession of”) + -age