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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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†IMPIGNORATE, v. To place in pawn, pledge, mortgage. Pa.p. impignorat, pawned, pledged. [ɪm′pɪgnəret]Sc. 1715 S.H.S. Misc. I. 503:
Pd. for relieving my Cloak Impignorat be my brother Wm. . . . £ Sc. 100.Sc. 1732 E. Erskine Works (1871) II. 10:
In his oath he impignorates his holiness.Sc. 1769 Erskine Principles ii. viii. § 1:
A wadset . . . is a right, by which lands, or other heritable subjects, are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor, in security of his debt.Sc. 1880 Liter. World (17 Sept.) 177:
When Orkney and Shetland were impignorated to the Crown of Scotland.

Hence impignoration, the action or fact of pledging or pawning (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 41).Sc. 1826 Scott M. Malagrowther 42:
The impignoration of moveables, which affords facilities, without which the small, yet indispensable branches of traffic, could not be carried on.