Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete forms of engage, engagement.
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- verb Obsolete spelling of
engage .
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Examples
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In whatever of old English verbiage, with quaint terms and cumbersome repetition, the stipulations of this contract of were concealed, there can be no doubt that they purported and designed to "ingage" that "the
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876
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However, I dare ingage, there is not one of either Sex wou'd injoy the utmost Pleasures, attending the Perpetration of these Crimes, at the Price of their Humanity.
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But I dare ingage, if it were in Fowler's Power, he would most readily change with the most contemptible of Human Creatures, (setting a happy Immortality aside).
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Proverb, for want of good Neighbours to do it for me; or rather, for want of Desert to ingage those good Neighbours.
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After a little Consideration, my Landlady, with much Goodness, sent for the Officers of the Parish, to ingage on her behalf; that they might leave her in Repose, 'till Time should find out the Gentleman; or get some
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Respect and Esteem from all the World; as well as does her amiable Person ingage my Son's Affections.
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Answer, That the Notion of Deities was a Chimera infused into my Fancy by my Mother, and a customary Education; and that all the World were misled into such Opinions by Priests and Potentates, whose Interest it was to ingage their Inferiors into a Belief of some invisible Powers, thereby to keep them in Subjection.
Exilius 2008
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Fortunately our virtuous neighbours would never ingage in such a questionable trade.
greed 2005
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I call this Vally my TRENT VALLY, for it was the prophit I got from that exlent line, which injuiced me to ingage him.
Burlesques 2006
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I call this Vally my TRENT VALLY, for it was the prophit I got from that exlent line, which injuiced me to ingage him.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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