AGISTMENT

The feeding of cattle in a common pasture for a stipulated price; and hence tithe of agistment is the tithe due for the profit made by agisting. The Irish parliament, in the last century, most iniquitously declared that man an enemy of his country who should demand tithe of agistment.— Jebb. AGNOETES or AGNOETÆ. ( ἀ and γνῶμι .) A sort of Christian heretics about the year 370, followers of Theophronius the Cappadocian, who joined himself with Eunomius; they called in question the omniscience of God , alleging that he knew not things past in any other way than by memory, nor things to come but by an uncertain prescience.