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Meaning of AGIST

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\A*gist"\, v. t. [OF. agister; [`a] (L. ad) + gister to
assign a lodging, fr. giste lodging, abode, F. g[^i]te, LL.
gistum, gista, fr. L. jacitum, p. p. of jac?re to lie: cf.
LL. agistare, adgistare. See {Gist}.] (Law)
To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used
originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests,
and collecting the money for the same. --Blackstone.
 
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