Definition of "abigeat" in Englisch

noun

1. (archaic) 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 […]