Yesterday's term was hypothecate, which is defined as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Define That Term #74] Reference

So, I'm not going to hypothecate that anything goes too fast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making the History of 1989] Reference

They hypothecate a condition in which utter promiscuity prevailed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

“He is trying to hypothecate the lot or any part of it at one-fifty.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

She had arranged to hypothecate her half of the equity, to pay for the charter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inconstant Star]

There was no course for Sandford, then, but to sell or hypothecate the shares of stock he held.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference

For it must be clearly understood that Paul is not asking us to fancy, or imagine, or hypothecate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theology of Holiness] Reference

When the Senator is trapped in the coils of his own creation – did he hypothesize or hypothecate?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stromata Blog:] Reference

For example, both Scalia and Rehnquist misused the word “hypothecate,” apparently confusing it with the near homonym “hypothesize,” which, admittedly, a dictionary or two will give as a secondary definition (in my view, this merely a reification of the sound-alike confusion and reflects the descriptive (as opposed to prescriptive) philosophy of the editor).    From Wordnik.com.  [Business, Law, Economics & Society] Reference

He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference

True: she had mentioned some personal jewellery she planned to hypothecate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Wolf A Melodrama] Reference

Could you hypothecate students future taxes to the university that they attended?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology Listings] Reference

Just hypothecate ten thousand of those Union Cordage shares and five thousand Western.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference

Climate Change reiterated today that it was not government policy to hypothecate revenues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

In like case I might hypothecate, "To go light, discard all but the really necessary articles.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest] Reference

He will not repudiate a promise to pay while he has money in bank or securities to hypothecate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pride of Palomar] Reference

Cabal, and they are being used to hypothecate, transfer, service, or otherwise carry this debt held by certain foreign central banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free] Reference

He only had to weigh in his mind one little thought before he knew how to proceed in order to be able to hypothecate his manly vigour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Droll Stories — Volume 1] Reference

Then you hypothecate your stock in company number one, and you have your dummy directors lend you more money, and you buy another trust company.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moneychangers] Reference

It is also absurd to hypothecate when you have no first hand or even second hand knowledge - all you have is based on a single, short news article.    From Wordnik.com.  [columbiatribune.com stories] Reference

He could buy certificates of city loan for the sinking-fund up to any reasonable amount, hypothecate them where he pleased, and draw his pay from the city without presenting a voucher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Financier, a novel] Reference

Great Debate contenders hypothecate a beter NSW IF anyone is concerned about the future of NSW, fear not: Premier Kristina Keneally has committed to "incentivising" and "hypothecating" our way out of trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Hemmings alleges, and I believe with truth, that Mrs. Bethune, whilst riding in a coach with him, and after a "love encounter" (laughter) gave to him these jewels to hypothecate in the place to which he had been a frequent visitor for Mrs. Bethune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.] Reference

Or the case may be likened to the ordinary one of a tenant for life, who may hypothecate the land for his debts, during the continuance of his usufruct; but at his death, the reversioner (who is also for life only) receives it exonerated from all burthen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference

It appeared to the Treasurer, as well as to his lawyers, Messrs.R. H. Battle and S.F. Mordecai, that if the University should sue the Bank, the defendant would take the ground that it was the innocent holder of bonds payable to bearer, with no notice that the ex-Treasurer was without authority to hypothecate them.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912] Reference

There’s all those shares we bought to-day which we ought to be able to hypothecate with somebody.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

(b) we are at an unprecedented moment where there are no comparative economic circumstances from which one could hypothecate proof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Safehaven] Reference

You’d probably need another method of compelling the contributions, so maybe it’d be possible to outsource tax collection to service stations – which would mean you could hypothecate by usage but you couldn’t devolve control locally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why lefty types should support privatised roads] Reference

• assist local entities in the preparation of their premises for the use of water furnished by the commission and to construct upon their premises project properties of any kind and in connection there with to receive, acquire, endorse, pledge, hypothecate and dispose of notes, bonds and other evidence of indebtedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuttgart Daily Leader Homepage RSS] Reference

"But for your noble horse," continued my companion, "the doctor here would have been stopping about this time to hypothecate upon your bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

For instance, let's hypothecate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Fix] Reference

I just can't hypothecate.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

2. hypothecate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference