▪ I. † imˈpignorate, pa. pple. Obs.
[ad. med.L. impignorāt-us, pa. pple. of impignorāre, f. im- (im-1) + pignus, pigner-, pignor- pledge, pawn, mortgage: cf. L. pignerāre to pledge.]
Pledged, pawned, mortgaged.
| 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VII 27 b, [They] borowed..money, and for the repayment of the same, had morgaged and impignorate their landes. 1683–4 H. Rose Family of Rose of Kilravock (Spalding Cl.) 58 For payment..he gave the lands of Kinstearie, impignorat to him for 300 merks. |
▪ II. impignorate, v. Chiefly Sc.
(ɪmˈpɪgnəreɪt)
Also -pigner-.
[f. med.L. ppl. stem impignorāt- (see prec.).]
trans. To place in pawn; to pledge, pawn, mortgage.
| a 1639 Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vii. (1677) 519 The Earl had impignorated his estate. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Impignerate. 1732 E. Erskine Serm. Wks. 1871 II. 10 In his oath he impignorates his holiness. 1754 Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 417 A wadset..is a right, by which lands, or other heritable subjects, are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of his debt. 1880 Literary World 17 Sept. 177/2 When Orkney and Shetland were impignorated to the Crown of Scotland. |