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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Pīg'no-rā'tion, n.

noun

n. [L. Lat. pignoration, from pignorare, Lat. pigneratio, from pignerare, to pledge, fr. pignus, pignoris and pigneris, a pledge, pawn; Fr. pignoration.]

  1. The act of pledging or pawning.
  2. (Civil Law.) The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill.