oppignorate

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verb

To pawn; to lay in pledge.

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Meanings

verboppignorate (third-person singular simple present oppignorates, present participle oppignorating, simple past and past participle oppignorated)

present singular third person oppignorates · participle present oppignorating · participle past oppignorated · past oppignorated · alternative oppignerate

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo pawn; to lay in pledge.

    Besides that, Ferdinando had but newly taken breath from the war with the Moors; and merchanded at this time with France for the restoring of the counties of Russignon and Perpignian, oppignorated to the French.

    1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 91

Origin

See oppignerate.

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Chicago

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