mortgage
nounEtymology
From Middle English morgage and Middle French mortgage, from Anglo-Norman morgage, from Old French mort gage (“dead pledge”), after a translation of judicial Medieval Latin mortuum wadium, with wadium from Frankish *wadi (“wager, pledge”). Compare gage and also wage. So called because rents and profits from the land were owed to the lender for as long as the gage existed (comparable to interest on a loan today), as opposed to the living gage, in which rents and profits automatically reduced the debt (paying it off over time).
- derived from mortuum wadium
- derived from mort gage
- derived from morgage
- derived from mortgage
- inherited from morgage
Definitions
A legal agreement in which a borrower pledges real property as collateral for a loan used…
A legal agreement in which a borrower pledges real property as collateral for a loan used to purchase or refinance that property.
- The appriser, therefore, (as the holder of a mortgage was then called,) entered upon possession, and in the language of Hotspur, "came me cranking in," and cut the family out of another monstrous cantle of their remaining property.
The state of being pledged.
- lands given in mortgage
To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the…
To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan.
- to mortgage a property, an estate, or a shop
- We mortgaged our house in order to start a company.
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To pledge and make liable
To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term.
- She mortgaged her future for the pleasures of the relationship with the sculptor, a relationship she knew would be short.
- Like a latter-day Faustus who has mortgaged his soul to the pursuit of his art, Harrison now desperately craves the paternal love from which his learning has estranged him.
The neighborhood
- neighborhypothecation
- neighbormortgagee
- neighbormortgager
Derived
anaconda mortgage, conventional mortgage loan, dragnet mortgage, endowment-linked mortgage, endowment mortgage, jumbo mortgage, liar's mortgage, mortgage-backed, mortgage-backed security, mortgage belt, mortgage bond, mortgage burner, mortgage deed, mortgage lender, mortgageless, mortgage lifter, mortgage packager, mortgage roll, multimortgage, nonmortgage, repayment mortgage, reverse mortgage, shared appreciation mortgage, submortgage, tracker mortgage, Welsh mortgage, wraparound mortgage, zombie mortgage, mortgagor, mortgageable, nonmortgaged, overmortgage, remortgage, unmortgage
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at mortgage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at mortgage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at mortgage
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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