Word Meanings - HYPOTHECATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See

Additional info about word: HYPOTHECATE

To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HYPOTHECATE)

• Owe
• Borrow
• hypothecate
• attribute
• Pledge Pawn

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HYPOTHECATE)

• Divorce
• disconnect
• dissociate
• dissever

Related words: (words related to HYPOTHECATE)

• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• DISSOCIATE
  To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward. (more info)
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• HYPOTHECATE
  To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
  One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
• DISSEVERMENT
  Disseverance. Sir W. Scott.
• DIVORCEMENT
  Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.
• PLEDGELESS
  Having no pledge.
• ATTRIBUTE
  A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules. (more info) 1. That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or
• PLEDGER
  One who pledges.
• DIVORCEE
  A person divorced.
• PLEDGEE
  The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
• DIVORCER
  The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce. Drummond.
• DIVORCELESS
  Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce.
• PLEDGET
  A string of oakum used in calking. (more info) 1. A small plug.
• DIVORCE
  A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. "from the bond of matrimony." The separation of a married woman
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• IMPLEDGE
  To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
• HEADBOROUGH; HEADBORROW
  A petty constable. (more info) 1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. Blackstone.