oppignorate

English

Verb

oppignorate (third-person singular simple present oppignorates, present participle oppignorating, simple past and past participle oppignorated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pawn; to lay in pledge.
   • 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 91:

     Besides that, Ferdinando had but newly taken breath from the war with the Moors; and merchanded at this time with France for the restoring of the counties of Russignon and Perpignian, oppignorated to the French.

Alternative forms

• oppignerate

Related terms

• oppignoration

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

oppignorate

1. inflection of oppignorare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

oppignorate f pl

1. feminine plural of oppignorato