单词 | pignoration |
释义 | pignorationn. Now rare (literary). The action of pledging or pawning something. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > act of pawning pignoration1549 limbo1590 pawning1592 impignoration1598 pawnage1624 pop1819 pawn1824 avuncularism1859 mosking1902 1549 Protocol Bk. J. Crawford (Edinb. Reg. House) f. 28v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pigneratioun In vod & pyngneratioun of xl merkis of mone. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Pigneration, a pawning or morgaging. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Pigneration [1678 ed. Pignoration], a gaging or laying to pawn. a1726 G. Gilbert Law Replevins (1755) i. 30 If he doth not appear to perform the Condition of such Pignoration, the Vadii are forfeited. 1789 T. Sheridan Compl. Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 2) 574/2 Pignoration,..the act of pledging. 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. ix. 270 The Pignoration of the Continental Teutonic Law is more archaic than the Distress with which we are familiar in England. 1981 G. Harwood Lion's Bride 62 My pignoration, See, is this smaragd, of porraceous hue. 1986 K. Kesey Demon Box 135 The aforementioned is all just collateral, just bloody pignoration compiled to get us bonded by the bureaucrats. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1549 |
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