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GAGE , a See also:

PLEDGE

pledge, something deposited as See also:

SECURITY (Lat. securus, free from care, safe)

security for the performance of an agreement, and liable to be forfeited on failure to carry it out. The word also appears in " engage," and is taken from the O. Fr., as are " wage," See also:

PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment for services, and " See also:

WAGER (derived, through Fr. wagier, gagier, from Lat. vadiunz, a pledge)

wager," See also:

bet, stake, from the See also:

COLLATERAL (from Med. Lat. collateralis,—cum, with, and latus, lateris, side,—side by side, hence parallel or additional)

collateral O. Fr. waige. These two words are from the See also:

Low See also:

Lat. wadiare, vadiare, to pledge, vadiunz, classical Lat. vas, vadis, but may be from the old See also:

Teutonic cognate See also:

BASE

base seen in See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

WADI

wadi, a pledge (cf. Ger. wetten, to wager) ; this Teutonic base' is seen in Eng. " wed," to marry, i.e. to engage by a pledge (cf. Goth. gawadjon, to betrothe). A particular See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of giving a " gage " or pledge was that of throwing down a See also:

GLOVE (O. Eng. glof, perhaps connected with Gothic lofa, the palm of the hand)

glove or See also:

GAUNTLET (a diminutive of the Fr. gant, glove)

gauntlet as a See also:

CHALLENGE (O. Fr. chalonge, calenge, &c., from Lat. calumnia, originally meaning trickery, from calvi, to deceive, hence a false accusation, a " calumny ")

challenge to a judicial combat, the glove being the " pledge " that the parties would appear on the See also:

field; hence the See also:

COMMON

common phrase " to throw down the gage of See also:

DEFIANCE

defiance " for any challenge (see GLOVE and WAGER).

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