agistmentn.

Brit.

/əˈdʒɪs(t)mənt/, U.S.

/əˈdʒɪs(t)mənt/, Australian English

/əˈdʒɪs(t)mənt/, New Zealand English

/əˈdʒɪs(t)mənt/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s agistement, late Middle English– agistment, 1500s agestment, 1600s egistment, 1800s– ajistment (English regional).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French agistement.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman agestement, egistement, Anglo-Norman and Law French agistement land used as pasture for cattle (late 13th cent. or earlier), action or process of taking livestock to feed at an agreed rate (c1300 or earlier), rate levied or profit made upon the pasturing of another person's cattle (first quarter of the 14th cent. or earlier in mettre un agistement ) < agister , agester agist v. + -ment -ment suffix. Compare post-classical Latin agistamentum (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources). Compare later gistment n.

Now Australian and New Zealand.

1. The rate levied on or profit made from the pasturing of another person's cattle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > pasturing for rent > rent

grass-silver1322

agistmenta1447

grass mail1479

a1447 in J. Raine Inventories & Acct. Rolls Benedictine Houses Jarrow & Monk-Wearmouth (1854) App. 242 (MED) The saide Priour..suld haue..other tendis, agistmentz, gyrssyns, [etc.].

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 536/2 Aduantages and profites..as in pannage and agistementes.

1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest ix. §1 Agistment is most properly, the common of Herbage, of any kind of ground..or the money that is received or due for the same.

1659 H. Applegarth tr. W. Glisson & A. Gulston Surv. Law 299 A man cannot distrain for Agistment, but shall have trespass if that they chace them out of the Land before the Agistment be paid.

1742 Jura Ecclesiastica II. 129 The Agistment is nothing but the Profit by the Beasts feeding there upon the same Land, whereof the Parson before had Tithes of Hay.

1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) Agistment is likewise the profit of such feeding in a ground or field; and extends to the depasturing of barren cattle of the owner, for which tithes shall be paid to the parson.

1895 Gold Fields Act Amendm. Act (59 Vict. c18) §8 in Queensland Statutes (1897) VII. 5679 All stock other than travelling stock and stock exempt from payment of agistment..shall be held to be depastured thereon.

1991 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 8 Jan. Tasmanians would receive agistment of about $1000 for the Glovers' use of the area.

†2. The herbage of a forest, or the right to it. Cf. herbage n. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights

pannage1392

commonc1405

stint1437

agistmenta1450

intercommon1449

commonty1466

foggage1471

communitya1475

gist1493

commoning?a1509

arrentationc1540

wether gang1561

browsage1570

pasturage1572

feed1575

intercommoner1581

frankfold1609

broouage1610

fellow commoner1612

horsegate1619

frankfoldage1628

shack1629

tatha1641

retropannage1679

levancy and couchancya1691

commonance1701

stinter1701

horse-lease1721

stray1736

goose-gate1739

commonage1792

twinter1846

couchance1886

levance1886

sheep-stray1891

stintholder1894

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [noun] > herbage or grass > cultivated or for pasture

pasturea1400

fogc1400

vesture1455

vestiturec1460

pasturagea1522

feed1580

agistment1598

pasture grass1628

ear-grass1686

artificial grass1733

seeds1794

tath1807

green stuff1895

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > other types of pasture

fritha1552

bruery1573

agistment1598

mountain1780

zuur-veldt1785

boosey pasture1794

rough grazing1802

outrun1870

a1450 Forest Laws in W. A. Baillie-Grohman & F. Baillie-Grohman Master of Game (1904) 242 (MED) If his swyn renne in to the forest in lettyng of the kynges agistement, ye shul do vs to wite ho oweth hem and the price of hem.

1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest ix. §1 Agistment is most properly, the common of Herbage, of any kind of ground..or the money that is received or due for the same.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Paisson, th' Agistment, or Herbage of woods, or forests; feeding for cattell therein.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 15 The feed or herbage of the cattell is called Agistment.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 50 The Revenues of the Earl of Chester..Herbage and Agistments of Maxfield Park, 6[l.] 0 0.

3. The action or process of taking livestock to feed at an agreed rate; (also) the opening of a forest for a specified time to livestock. †Also in plural: cattle taken in under this process (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > agistment

gistment1511

agistment1537

joist1558

justment1597

agisting1598

agistation1686

agistage1691

gisement1695

gisting1829

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > pasturing for rent

gistment1511

agistment1537

joist1558

justment rent1597

agisting1598

agistation1686

agistage1691

gisement1695

gisting1829

1537 in J. R. Walbran Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains (1863) I. 279 The said Robert Brown..byndes hymselfe to content and pay yerely..thre powndes, sex shellings viijd., for the agestment of all his own suche guddes and cattalles as he haith goynge.

1542 in J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. III (1828) II. 226 The which hathe bene and is occupied onely with lyke agestment in sommer.

1551 in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1905) III. 64 Yt was agred..that towardes the charges of the sewt for the agestment in Beamonte leyse, euery on of the xxiiii^ti shall pay iis. apece.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Glandage,..th' Agistment, or laying of swine into Mastie woods.

1669 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ 270 Egistments, cattle taken in to graze, or be fed by the week or moneth.

1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. ix. 219 To take pannage which was one farthing for the agistment of each hog.

1735 Compl. Eng. Copyholder I. 155 A Horse, &c. put out to Pasture by Way of Agistment may be distrained.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 452 If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment.

1885 Sheffield Tel. 30 June (advt.) Agistment. Good pasture for cattle and horses.

1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xxx. 263 Kidman sent 3000 bullocks there on agistment.

1976 Cumberland & Westmorland Herald 4 Dec. 15/3 (advt.) Agistment... Clean Grass Keep or turnips wanted for sheep.

1996 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 June 84 Even if the cattle were contaminated before agistment, the agisting farmer might have to wear the blame.

†4. In extended use: a rate or charge levied upon the owner or occupier of (pasture) lands. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > land tax > types of land tax

hidegelda1087

tenmantalec1135

hidagea1195

penny-gavel1440

ground-annual1551

hide-money1570

carucage1577

scat1577

caruage1610

agistment1632

geld levy1878

1632 tr. Act 6 Henry VI c. 5 in Coll. Sundrie Statutes sig. Dd So that no tenants of lands or tenements..shal in any wise be spared in this..& for agistments vpon the sea banks for preseruation of the said parts.

1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens xii. 48 And moreover to make agistments upon the Sea-Ditches for the safeguard of those parts, according to the number of acres or perches.

1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) There is agistment of sea-banks, where lands are charged with a tribute to keep out the sea.

1845 Morning Post 21 Aug. 2/5 Occupiers of waste lands are to pay agistment.

1853 Brit. Q. Rev. Nov. 396 The expense was levied by means of an agistment or assessment upon every man's land.

Phrases

tithe of agistment: = agistment tithe n. at Compounds 2. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1593 in R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) i. vi. 37 But (saith he) by the like reason, a man ought not to pay tithe of agistment, because hee yeeldeth tithe for the beasts that feed in his pasture.

1713 E. Gibson Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani II. xxx. v. 708/1 Such Cattel as be discharged from Tythe of Agistment, are..discharged from all other Tythe.

a1773 J. Hutchins Hist. Dorset (1774) I. 280/1 [Summarizing document of 1527] The rector..shall have all the tithes of hay and agistments in the mead called Shetewel in Bradepole.

1866 A. W. Edwards in Ess. Irish Church ii. 132 The violent and illegal abolition of the tithe of agistment, exempting, to a great extent, the richer classes of gentlemen farmers and graziers, threw the tithe-owner altogether on the tillage farmers and cottiers of a low class.

2010 J. Karian Jonathan Swift in Print & Manuscript v. 133 The fifty-two MPs..who voted for the clergy against the resolution to repeal the tithe of agistment.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as agistment book, agistment fee, agistment stock, etc.

ΚΠ

1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens xlvii. 347 That new Agistment Books be made by the Headborows with the Dike-reeves of every Township.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon ii. 82 Depending upon casual and agistment stock for the consumption of his herbage.

1855 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 469/2 We were told that they found it more profitable to take in agistment stock than to buy it.

1897 Timehri 11 139 Another and yet another cow is added to those for which his father pays agistment fees.

1958 Act (State of Victoria) No. 6297 Livery and Agistment Act 1958.

1958 J. Finberg Exploring Villages v. 82 Running strangers' cattle with their own in the forest in return for ‘agistment’ fees.

1982 R. A. K. Heath Kwaku ii. xxiii. 180 The farmer to whom he used to pay an agistment fee had turned to sugar-cane planting.

C2.

agistment tithe n. now historical a tithe paid to the vicar or rector of a parish by the person occupying land (and not by the person whose livestock is pastured there on agistment); = tithe agistment n. at tithe n.² Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > church dues > tithe > types of

privy tithe?1529

parsonage1568

umboth1577

agistment tithe1781

1781 Ann. Reg. 1779 i. Chron. 221/2 A claim made by the former [i.e. the rector] of agistment tithe in kind.

1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Eighth, Ninth & Last Let. x.38 The abolition of agistment tithe in Ireland by a vote of the Irish House of Commons.

1890 M. Fuller Our Title Deeds xii. 246 Agistment Tithe was payable on unprofitable cattle only.

1985 R. J. P. Kain & H. C. Prince Tithe Surv. Eng. & Wales i. 20 He..had his mown meadows in Hazlewood so that he only paid agistment tithe in Stutton.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	agistment
释义	agistmentn. Brit. /əˈdʒɪs(t)mənt/, U.S. /əˈdʒɪs(t)mənt/, Australian English /əˈdʒɪs(t)mənt/, New Zealand English /əˈdʒɪs(t)mənt/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s agistement, late Middle English– agistment, 1500s agestment, 1600s egistment, 1800s– ajistment (English regional). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French agistement. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman agestement, egistement, Anglo-Norman and Law French agistement land used as pasture for cattle (late 13th cent. or earlier), action or process of taking livestock to feed at an agreed rate (c1300 or earlier), rate levied or profit made upon the pasturing of another person's cattle (first quarter of the 14th cent. or earlier in mettre un agistement ) < agister , agester agist v. + -ment -ment suffix. Compare post-classical Latin agistamentum (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources). Compare later gistment n. Now Australian and New Zealand. 1. The rate levied on or profit made from the pasturing of another person's cattle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > pasturing for rent > rent grass-silver1322 agistmenta1447 grass mail1479 a1447 in J. Raine Inventories & Acct. Rolls Benedictine Houses Jarrow & Monk-Wearmouth (1854) App. 242 (MED) The saide Priour..suld haue..other tendis, agistmentz, gyrssyns, [etc.]. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 536/2 Aduantages and profites..as in pannage and agistementes. 1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest ix. §1 Agistment is most properly, the common of Herbage, of any kind of ground..or the money that is received or due for the same. 1659 H. Applegarth tr. W. Glisson & A. Gulston Surv. Law 299 A man cannot distrain for Agistment, but shall have trespass if that they chace them out of the Land before the Agistment be paid. 1742 Jura Ecclesiastica II. 129 The Agistment is nothing but the Profit by the Beasts feeding there upon the same Land, whereof the Parson before had Tithes of Hay. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) Agistment is likewise the profit of such feeding in a ground or field; and extends to the depasturing of barren cattle of the owner, for which tithes shall be paid to the parson. 1895 Gold Fields Act Amendm. Act (59 Vict. c18) §8 in Queensland Statutes (1897) VII. 5679 All stock other than travelling stock and stock exempt from payment of agistment..shall be held to be depastured thereon. 1991 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 8 Jan. Tasmanians would receive agistment of about $1000 for the Glovers' use of the area. †2. The herbage of a forest, or the right to it. Cf. herbage n. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights pannage1392 commonc1405 stint1437 agistmenta1450 intercommon1449 commonty1466 foggage1471 communitya1475 gist1493 commoning?a1509 arrentationc1540 wether gang1561 browsage1570 pasturage1572 feed1575 intercommoner1581 frankfold1609 broouage1610 fellow commoner1612 horsegate1619 frankfoldage1628 shack1629 tatha1641 retropannage1679 levancy and couchancya1691 commonance1701 stinter1701 horse-lease1721 stray1736 goose-gate1739 commonage1792 twinter1846 couchance1886 levance1886 sheep-stray1891 stintholder1894 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [noun] > herbage or grass > cultivated or for pasture pasturea1400 fogc1400 vesture1455 vestiturec1460 pasturagea1522 feed1580 agistment1598 pasture grass1628 ear-grass1686 artificial grass1733 seeds1794 tath1807 green stuff1895 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > other types of pasture fritha1552 bruery1573 agistment1598 mountain1780 zuur-veldt1785 boosey pasture1794 rough grazing1802 outrun1870 a1450 Forest Laws in W. A. Baillie-Grohman & F. Baillie-Grohman Master of Game (1904) 242 (MED) If his swyn renne in to the forest in lettyng of the kynges agistement, ye shul do vs to wite ho oweth hem and the price of hem. 1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest ix. §1 Agistment is most properly, the common of Herbage, of any kind of ground..or the money that is received or due for the same. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Paisson, th' Agistment, or Herbage of woods, or forests; feeding for cattell therein. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 15 The feed or herbage of the cattell is called Agistment. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 50 The Revenues of the Earl of Chester..Herbage and Agistments of Maxfield Park, 6[l.] 0 0. 3. The action or process of taking livestock to feed at an agreed rate; (also) the opening of a forest for a specified time to livestock. †Also in plural: cattle taken in under this process (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > agistment gistment1511 agistment1537 joist1558 justment1597 agisting1598 agistation1686 agistage1691 gisement1695 gisting1829 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > pasturing for rent gistment1511 agistment1537 joist1558 justment rent1597 agisting1598 agistation1686 agistage1691 gisement1695 gisting1829 1537 in J. R. Walbran Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains (1863) I. 279 The said Robert Brown..byndes hymselfe to content and pay yerely..thre powndes, sex shellings viijd., for the agestment of all his own suche guddes and cattalles as he haith goynge. 1542 in J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. III (1828) II. 226 The which hathe bene and is occupied onely with lyke agestment in sommer. 1551 in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1905) III. 64 Yt was agred..that towardes the charges of the sewt for the agestment in Beamonte leyse, euery on of the xxiiii^ti shall pay iis. apece. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Glandage,..th' Agistment, or laying of swine into Mastie woods. 1669 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ 270 Egistments, cattle taken in to graze, or be fed by the week or moneth. 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. ix. 219 To take pannage which was one farthing for the agistment of each hog. 1735 Compl. Eng. Copyholder I. 155 A Horse, &c. put out to Pasture by Way of Agistment may be distrained. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 452 If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment. 1885 Sheffield Tel. 30 June (advt.) Agistment. Good pasture for cattle and horses. 1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xxx. 263 Kidman sent 3000 bullocks there on agistment. 1976 Cumberland & Westmorland Herald 4 Dec. 15/3 (advt.) Agistment... Clean Grass Keep or turnips wanted for sheep. 1996 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 June 84 Even if the cattle were contaminated before agistment, the agisting farmer might have to wear the blame. †4. In extended use: a rate or charge levied upon the owner or occupier of (pasture) lands. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > land tax > types of land tax hidegelda1087 tenmantalec1135 hidagea1195 penny-gavel1440 ground-annual1551 hide-money1570 carucage1577 scat1577 caruage1610 agistment1632 geld levy1878 1632 tr. Act 6 Henry VI c. 5 in Coll. Sundrie Statutes sig. Dd So that no tenants of lands or tenements..shal in any wise be spared in this..& for agistments vpon the sea banks for preseruation of the said parts. 1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens xii. 48 And moreover to make agistments upon the Sea-Ditches for the safeguard of those parts, according to the number of acres or perches. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) There is agistment of sea-banks, where lands are charged with a tribute to keep out the sea. 1845 Morning Post 21 Aug. 2/5 Occupiers of waste lands are to pay agistment. 1853 Brit. Q. Rev. Nov. 396 The expense was levied by means of an agistment or assessment upon every man's land. Phrases tithe of agistment: = agistment tithe n. at Compounds 2. Now historical. ΚΠ 1593 in R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) i. vi. 37 But (saith he) by the like reason, a man ought not to pay tithe of agistment, because hee yeeldeth tithe for the beasts that feed in his pasture. 1713 E. Gibson Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani II. xxx. v. 708/1 Such Cattel as be discharged from Tythe of Agistment, are..discharged from all other Tythe. a1773 J. Hutchins Hist. Dorset (1774) I. 280/1 [Summarizing document of 1527] The rector..shall have all the tithes of hay and agistments in the mead called Shetewel in Bradepole. 1866 A. W. Edwards in Ess. Irish Church ii. 132 The violent and illegal abolition of the tithe of agistment, exempting, to a great extent, the richer classes of gentlemen farmers and graziers, threw the tithe-owner altogether on the tillage farmers and cottiers of a low class. 2010 J. Karian Jonathan Swift in Print & Manuscript v. 133 The fifty-two MPs..who voted for the clergy against the resolution to repeal the tithe of agistment. Compounds C1. General attributive, as agistment book, agistment fee, agistment stock, etc. ΚΠ 1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens xlvii. 347 That new Agistment Books be made by the Headborows with the Dike-reeves of every Township. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon ii. 82 Depending upon casual and agistment stock for the consumption of his herbage. 1855 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 469/2 We were told that they found it more profitable to take in agistment stock than to buy it. 1897 Timehri 11 139 Another and yet another cow is added to those for which his father pays agistment fees. 1958 Act (State of Victoria) No. 6297 Livery and Agistment Act 1958. 1958 J. Finberg Exploring Villages v. 82 Running strangers' cattle with their own in the forest in return for ‘agistment’ fees. 1982 R. A. K. Heath Kwaku ii. xxiii. 180 The farmer to whom he used to pay an agistment fee had turned to sugar-cane planting. C2. agistment tithe n. now historical a tithe paid to the vicar or rector of a parish by the person occupying land (and not by the person whose livestock is pastured there on agistment); = tithe agistment n. at tithe n.² Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > church dues > tithe > types of privy tithe?1529 parsonage1568 umboth1577 agistment tithe1781 1781 Ann. Reg. 1779 i. Chron. 221/2 A claim made by the former [i.e. the rector] of agistment tithe in kind. 1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Eighth, Ninth & Last Let. x.38 The abolition of agistment tithe in Ireland by a vote of the Irish House of Commons. 1890 M. Fuller Our Title Deeds xii. 246 Agistment Tithe was payable on unprofitable cattle only. 1985 R. J. P. Kain & H. C. Prince Tithe Surv. Eng. & Wales i. 20 He..had his mown meadows in Hazlewood so that he only paid agistment tithe in Stutton. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1447
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