agisted

EN
verb

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

male

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

female

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

male

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

female

Word Forms

Past Tense

agisted

Past Participle

agisted

Gerund

agisting

3rd Person

agists

Description

Agisted is the past tense and past participle of 'agist', a formal British and Commonwealth legal term meaning to place livestock (like cattle or sheep) on someone else's land for grazing, usually under a paid agreement β€” think of it as 'renting pasture' for animals. It’s rarely heard outside farming, land law, or historical contexts.

Examples

The farmer agisted his flock on the neighboring estate during the drought.

Under the 19th-century common land laws, tenants could agist animals on shared pasture for a fee.

She agisted her prize-winning goats on organic farmland for three months.

The lease explicitly permits the tenant to agist no more than twenty head of cattle.

Local bylaws require written consent before you can agist livestock on protected moorland.

Root

gest

Comes from the Old French verb 'agister' (to lodge, place), ultimately derived from the Latin 'ad + gestare' ('to carry to' or 'to bring to'), where 'gestare' means 'to carry, bear, or manage'. The root 'gest-' conveys the core idea of carrying, bearing, managing, or placing something under care. Examples include agist, digest, ingest, suggest, congest, and invest.