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- Engage - v. t. - To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise.
- Engage - v. t. - To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.
- Engage - v. t. - To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw.
- Engage - v. t. - To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.
- Engage - v. t. - To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict.
- Engage - v. t. - To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.
- Engage - v. i. - To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant.
- Engage - v. i. - To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.
- Engage - v. i. - To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.
- Engage - v. i. - To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.
- Engaged - imp. & p. p. - of Engage
- Engaged - a. - Occupied; employed; busy.
- Engaged - a. - Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
- Engaged - a. - Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
- Engaged - a. - Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight.
- Engagedly - adv. - With attachment; with interest; earnestly.
- Engagedness - n. - The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
- Engagement - n. - The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
- Engagement - n. - The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
- Engagement - n. - That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office.
- Engagement - n. - An action; a fight; a battle.
- Engagement - n. - The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.
- Engager - n. - One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.
- Challenge - n. - An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- Conflict - v. i. - To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
- Embark - v. i. - To engage in any affair.
- Apply - v. t. - To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
- Redemptorist - n. - One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth.
- Undergo - v. t. - To undertake; to engage in; to hazard.
- Retreat - n. - A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.
- Pool - n. - A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
- Engage - v. i. - To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.
- Retainer - n. - A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee.
- Riot - v. i. - To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
- Enterprise - n. - Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.
- Enter - v. t. - To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.
- Ship - v. i. - To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.
- Logroll - v. i. & t. - To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling.
- Hire - n. - To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time.
- Carouse - v. i. - To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels.
- Guarantee - n. - In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or at all avents; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty.
- Promise - v. t. - To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.
- Racket - v. i. - To carouse or engage in dissipation.
- Undertake - v. t. - To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.
- Balk - v. i. - To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- Bayonet - n. - A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
- Pair - v. t. - To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- Entertain - v. t. - To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain friends with conversation, etc.
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- H6148 עָרַב - 6148 עָרַב - עָרַב - - ʻârab - aw-rab' - a primitive root; to braid, i.e. intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter); also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange); engage, (inter-) meddle (with), mingle (self), mortgage, occupy, give pledges, be(-come, put in) surety, undertake. - Verb - heb
- H781 אָרַשׂ - 781 אָרַשׂ - אָרַשׂ - - ʼâras - aw-ras' - a primitive root; to engage for matrimony; betroth, espouse. - Verb - heb
- G1861 ἐπαγγέλλω - 1861 ἐπαγγέλλω - ἘΠΑΓΓΈΛΛΩ - - epangéllō - ep-ang-el'-lo - from ἐπί and the base of ἄγγελος; to announce upon (reflexively), i.e. (by implication) to engage to do something, to assert something respecting oneself:--profess, (make) promise. - Verb - greek
- G2038 ἐργάζομαι - 2038 ἐργάζομαι - ἘΡΓΆΖΟΜΑΙ - - ergázomai - er-gad'-zom-ahee - middle voice from ἔργον; to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc.:--commit, do, labor for, minister about, trade (by), work. - Verb - greek
- G231 ἁλιεύς - 231 ἁλιεύς - ἉΛΙΕΎΣ - - halieús - hal-ee-yoos' - from ἅλς; a sailor (as engaged on the salt water), i.e. (by implication) a fisher:--fisher(-man). - Noun Masculine - greek
- H4421 מִלְחָמָה - 4421 מִלְחָמָה - מִלְחָמָה - - milchâmâh - mil-khaw-maw' - from לָחַם (in the sense of fighting); a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare); battle, fight(-ing), war(-rior). - Noun Feminine - heb
- G3423 μνηστεύω - 3423 μνηστεύω - ΜΝΗΣΤΕΎΩ - - mnēsteúō - mnace-tyoo'-o - from a derivative of μνάομαι; to give a souvenir (engagement present), i.e. betroth:--espouse. - Verb - greek
- G4170 πολεμέω - 4170 πολεμέω - ΠΟΛΕΜΈΩ - - poleméō - pol-em-eh'-o - from πόλεμος; to be (engaged) in warfare, i.e. to battle (literally or figuratively):--fight, (make) war. - Verb - greek
- H3259 יָעַד - 3259 יָעַד - יָעַד - - yâʻad - yaw-ad' - a primitive root; to fix upon (by agreement or appointment); by implication, to meet (at a stated time), to summon (to trial), to direct (in a certain quarter or position), to engage (for marriage); agree,(maxke an) appoint(-ment, a time), assemble (selves), betroth, gather (selves, together), meet (together), set (a time). - Verb - heb
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- Jeremiah 24 30:21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
אַדִּיר מָשַׁל יָצָא קֶרֶב קָרַב נָגַשׁ עָרַב לֵב נָגַשׁ נְאֻם יְהֹוָה