impignorate

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verb

To pledge or pawn.

OriginLatin impignoratus →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person impignorates · participle present impignorating · participle past impignorated · past impignorated

  1. ScotlandUKobsoletetransitivelawTo pledge or pawn.

    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

    1904, Gilbert Goudie, The Celtic and Scandinavian antiquities of Shetland

Origin

  1. Latinimpignoratus
  2. Englishimpignorate

From Latin impignoratus, perfect passive participle of impignorare (“to pawn”). See pignoration.

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APA

impignorate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/impignorate

MLA

“impignorate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/impignorate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “impignorate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/impignorate.

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