APage 174
- English Word Agistator Definition See Agister.
- English Word Agister Definition Alt. of Agistor
- English Word Agistment Definition Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.
- English Word Agistment Definition The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.
- English Word Agistment Definition The price paid for such feeding.
- English Word Agistment Definition A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.
- English Word Agistor Definition Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
- English Word Agistor Definition Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
- English Word Agitable Definition Capable of being agitated, or easily moved.
- English Word Agitate Definition To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
- English Word Agitate Definition To move or actuate.
- English Word Agitate Definition To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
- English Word Agitate Definition To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
- English Word Agitate Definition To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
- English Word Agitated Definition of Agitate
- English Word Agitatedly Definition In an agitated manner.
- English Word Agitating Definition of Agitate
- English Word Agitation Definition The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.
- English Word Agitation Definition A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.
- English Word Agitation Definition Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation.