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1693 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) iv. xxv. 619 The Fruits of the Ground..which by the Law were Hypothecat for the Rents of the said year.

1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. vi. 184 The whole cattle on the ground..are hypothecated for a year's rent, one after another successively.

1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 55 We oblige ourselves and hypothecate, for the Security and Payment of the Sum of this Writing, the said Ship..and we oblige ourselves not to dispose thereof in any manner, until the said Sum be entirely paid. And whatever is done to the contrary, let it be null, as a Thing done against an express Prohibition and Hypothecation.

1756 R. Rolt New Dict. Trade Hypotheca, among the moderns to hypothecate a ship, is to pawn or pledge the same for necessaries; and into whose hands soever the ship comes, it is liable.

1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 319 Whether they to whom this new pledge is hypothecated, have redeemed their own.

1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon I. vi. 222 The Assembly adopted a system of paper-money called Assignats, which were secured or hypothecated upon the church-lands.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 148 He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue.

1906 Nature 7 June 136/1 Mr. Cowell hypothecated a resisting medium through which the earth travels.

1912 R. Fry in Great State ix. 271 Mr. Wells's Modern Utopia..hypothecates a vast superstructure of private trading.

1915 E. B. Holt Freudian Wish i. 4 One will best..not hypothecate to this end any such thing as ‘psychic energy’.

1920 E. Pound Let. 12 Sept. (1971) 161 You are talking through your hat when you suggest that I..was ever ass enough to have picked ‘La Figlia’ for the fantastic occasion you hypothecate.

1952 Pediatrics IX. 724 One had to hypothecate the existence of a mutation of organisms.

1779 W. Jones Comm. Isæus in Wks. (1799) IV. 205 The property..was distinguished like all other hypothecated estates, by small columns, and inscriptions..containing a specification of the sum for which they were pledged.

1865 Day of Rest Oct. 574 The iron box in the back sitting room, containing the hypothecated jewels, had been rifled.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hypothecator, one who pledges a ship or other property, as security for the repayment of money borrowed. Judge Johnson.