verb
pignĕror
Meaning
- to take as a pledge
pignĕror, ātus, 1,
I. v. dep. a. [id.]. Lit., to take as a pledge; hence, trop.,
I. To make one's own, to appropriate (rare but class.):
Mars ipse ex acie fortissimum quemque pignerari solet, Cic. Phil. 14, 12, 32: maximas ingenii, consilii partes sibi ad utilitatem suam, id. Rep. 1, 4, 8 (cited in Non. 477, 31 sq.): fidem militum praemio pigneratus, Suet. Claud. 10.—II. To accept as certain:
quod das mihi, pigneror, omen, Ov. M. 7, 621.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
pīgneror ātus, ārī, dep.
pignus, to take as a pledge, accept as earnest : omen, O.— To lay claim to, appropriate : ex acie fortissimum quemque.