"Hypothecate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... befell them—to appease the gods with the blood of sacrifice. In the early days human sacrifices were offered, and occasionally at least down to a late period.[39] It was a convenient policy of the priesthood, however, to hypothecate the claim for a human victim by accepting the substitution of a goodly number of horses or cows. A famous tradition is given, in the Aitareya Brahmana, of a prince[40] who had been doomed to sacrifice by a vow of his father, ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood
... indenture; charter &c (compact) 769; charter poll; paper, parchment, settlement, will, testament, last will and testament, codicil. V. give security, give bail, give substantial bail; go bail; pawn, impawn^, spout, mortgage, hypothecate, impignorate^. guarantee, warrant, warrantee, assure; accept, indorse, underwrite, insure; cosign, countersign, sponsor, cosponsor. execute, stamp; sign, seal &c (evidence) 467. let, sett^; grant a lease, take a lease, hold ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... some personal jewellery she planned to hypothecate. Her first move, then, would be to seek the mont-de-piete— not to force himself again upon her, but to follow at a distance and ward off ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance |
