(v. t.) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are basically buying time until it rains, moving cattle around even though agistment is rare as hen’s teeth,” he says.
(2) Experimental studies demonstrate that older-sounding speech triggers age schematic responses and that young people tend to use agist strategies of information seeking and compliance gaining from older people, while interactive studies explore how stereotypes and age identities are co-produced by young and old people in conversation.
Agistor
Definition:
(n.) Formerly, 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.
(n.) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.