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agister (1278-79)
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agister (1278-79)

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engister  
  FEW:  jacere 5,3a Gdf:  agister 1,161a GdfC: ∅ TL: agister 1,208 DEAF:  giser (agister) G648 DMF:  agister  TLF: ∅ OED:  agist v.  MED:  agisten v.  DMLBS:  agistare 53b

v.trans.

1lawagriculturalto agist (cattle), rent the right to feed animals: 
( 1278-79 )  quant les agisturs asemblerent de agister le demeyne boys le rey  Forest Pleas 127
( 1313 )  desicom list a chescun seignour de pestre son soil demene et d’agister boes  YBB Ed II xiv.ii 155
♦lawagriculturalto agist (pasture): 
( 1311 )  Il put agister de commune dreit son soil demene, et par taunt pestre de ses bestes demene  YBB Ed II ix 104
2mil.taxto assess (for military purposes): 
( 1321-22 )  les ditz conestables […] ont agisté le dit abbé a trover certeines gentz as armes a envoier en eide nostre seignur le Roi  Rot Parl1 i 413
( 1377 )  soient resonablement agistez pur lour tenementz et rentz […] pur l’aforcement et defense susdit  Rot Parl1 iii 20

See also:

gister 
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