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abigeat en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /əˈbɪd͡ʒi.ət/

Etymology

From Latin abigeatus, from the verb ab agō (“to drive”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, uncountable) Theft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it.
    • But the driving away of goods, or taking away, and detaining, another mans boat, without violence, by the number of 10 preſent, is a wrong, unwarrantable, and oppreſſive act, and a ſort of abigeat and thift, but is not properly a ryot […] 1676 [published 1848], John Lauder, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, T. Constable, vol 1., page 101
    • The shepherds of the Golden Age let their flocks out to pasture without fearing the abigeat, they feared only the wild beasts. 1968, Jim Dine, The poet assassinated, translation of Le poète assassiné by Guillaume Apollinaire, published 1916, page 26:
    • The contracting Republics [...] do hereby agree, reciprocally, to surrender persons [...] having committed [...] any of the following crimes, to wit: homicide, [...] abigeat (cattle stealing), [...] and, in general, any crime or offense 1906, International Bureau of the American Republics, Monthly bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, General Treaty of Peace and Amity, Arbitration, Commerce, etc., Concluded between the Republics of Costa Rica, Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, page 1167:

Relateds

rustle · abactor

Synonyms

rustling (theft of cattle)

Translations (7)

fi karjavarkaus (theft of cattle) · fr abigéat (theft of cattle) · pt abigeato (theft of cattle) · it abigeato (theft of cattle) · es cuatrero (theft of cattle) · es abigeato (theft of cattle) · de Viehdieb (theft of cattle)