(obsolete, UK, mostly, Scotland, law, transitive) To pledge or pawn.
the actial delivery to the lender of the impignorated lands — is clearly the feature of the deed, and the transaction may therefore be described more accurately as a pawn or wadset than as a mortgage in its modern sense
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