Definition of agist

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Agist (v. t.) 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..

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Defy :: Defy (v. t.) To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion..
Agistment :: Agistment (n.) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.
Magistracies :: Magistracies (pl. ) of Magistrac.
Landamman :: Landamman (n.) A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
Gerontes :: Gerontes (n. pl.) Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority..
Magistrate :: Magistrate (n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it..
Ostreophagist :: Ostreophagist (n.) One who feeds on oysters.
Venerable :: Venerable (a.) Capable of being venerated; worthy of veneration or reverence; deserving of honor and respect; -- generally implying an advanced age; as, a venerable magistrate; a venerable parent..
Alcalde :: Alcalde (n.) A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc..
Magistracy :: Magistracy (n.) The office or dignity of a magistrate.
Pensionary :: Pensionary (n.) One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.
Revest :: Revest (v. t.) To vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority..
Plebiscitum :: Plebiscitum (n.) A law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate..
Syndic :: Syndic (n.) An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate..
Dogmatically :: Dogmatically (adv.) In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.
Avoyer :: Avoyer (n.) A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.
Affirm :: Affirm (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation..
Authority :: Authority (n.) The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority..
Agistment :: Agistment (n.) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests..
Mayor :: Mayor (n.) The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.
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