impignorate

English

Etymology

From Latin impignoratus, p. pl. of impignorare (“to pawn”). See pignoration.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To pledge or pawn.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for impignorate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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