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agister

agister is the alternative 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 agister

pluralagisters

Questions about agister

What is agister the alternative form of?
Agister is the alternative form of agistor.

Words near agister in the dictionary

  1. agisms
  2. agist
  3. agistator
  4. agistators
  5. agisted
  6. agister
  7. agisters
  8. agisting
  9. agistment
  10. agistments
  11. agistor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: agister (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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