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agistator

agistator is the rare form of agistor.

Meaning of agistor

Noun

agistor (plural agistors)

  1. One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
  2. (historical) 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.

Forms of agistator

pluralagistators

Origin of agistator

Learned borrowing from Latin [Term?].

Questions about agistator

What is agistator the rare form of?
Agistator is the rare form of agistor.

Words near agistator in the dictionary

  1. agiotensin
  2. AGIs
  3. agism
  4. agisms
  5. agist
  6. agistator
  7. agistators
  8. agisted
  9. agister
  10. agisters
  11. agisting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: agistator (page history and authors); agistor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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