engagementn.

/ɛnˈɡeɪdʒmənt/

Forms: Also 1600s–1700s in-.

Etymology: < engage v. + -ment suffix.

I. The action of engaging; the state, condition, or fact of being engaged.

†1. The pledging or mortgaging (of property); a mortgage, ‘encumbrance’. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > encumbrance or mortgage on property

mortgagec1450

encumbrancy1554

engagement1611

encumbrance1629

clag1697

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Engage, a pledge, pawne, gage, ingagement.

1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 144 Hath hee..preseru'd his patrimony from ingagement?

1656 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (1676) 58 An House or Land..free from all ingagements.

a. A formal promise, agreement, undertaking, covenant.In 17th cent. applied spec. to various political compacts, esp. to the secret treaty negotiated at Carisbrooke in 1647 between Charles I and commissioners representing the Scottish government. See engager n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun]

accordc1275

assentc1400

agreement1427

appointment?1440

agreec1475

condition1483

covin1489

agreeance1525

concluding1530

compaction1534

indenture1540

conjurea1547

obsignation?1555

conclusion1569

engage1589

astipulation1595

adstipulation1598

agreation1598

tractation1600

closing1606

dispatch1612

combinationa1616

engagement1617

closure1647

covenantinga1649

adjustment1674

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 252 Which made other 7 cantons partners of that ingagement.

1646 E. Fisher Marrow Mod. Divin. (ed. 2) 22 The parties that were bound, are freed and released from their ingagements.

1651 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1887) V. The engagement was in theis words:—‘I doe declare,’ etc.

1654 D. Dickson Brief Explic. Psalmes cxvi. Introd. 137 This Psalme is a threefold engagement of the Psalmist unto thanksgiving unto God.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 24 He had my ingagement to preach the Sunday following.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxv. 209 Such is your Will, and such seem to be your Ingagements.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 28 The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the constitution.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvii. 178 An engagement was drawn up..and brought to me with the signatures of all the company.

b. An ‘appointment’ made with another person for any purpose of business, festivity, etc. Also attributive, as engagement book.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > engagement

tailyec1425

trystc1480

appointment1533

restipulation1595

pre-engagement1647

ingudgment1650

sponsion1677

engagement1806

commitment1837

date1885

booking1975

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 111 Starting for a long ride, on a dinner-engagement.

1831 B. Disraeli Young Duke I. ii. iii. 144 We damsels shall soon be obliged to carry a book to enrol our engagements..if this system of reversionary dancing be any longer encouraged.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. ii. 15 Anatole, his man..got a sight of her ladyship's engagement-book.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §24. 170 I..would have spent the night there were it not for my engagement with the Guide Chef.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 118 If you have no engagement, suppose that you sit down and tell me what passed.

1886 Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 328/1 On the following morning he [a racehorse] was found to be..incapable of fulfilling an engagement.

1959 T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman i. 19 But what a time for your engagement book! You know what the doctors said: complete relaxation.

c. Commerce. In plural. Promises to pay; pecuniary liabilities. In phrase, to meet one's engagements.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt

yielding1340

debtc1380

due1439

debitc1450

devoirs1503

debitory1575

debenture1609

money-debt1627

balance (due)1720

outstandings1755

liability1842

engagement1849

live horse1859

payables1896

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 215 They were consequently unable to meet their own engagements.

1891 N.E.D. at Engagement Mod. We regret to inform you that Mr. A. B. is unable to meet his engagements.

d. The fact of being engaged to be married; betrothal. Also attributive, esp. as engagement ring.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [noun]

truthc1300

betrothingc1315

truthingc1350

espousala1393

troth-plighta1393

desponsationa1400

troth-plightingc1400

ensurance1469

fiançailles1477

handfasting1483

assurancea1513

assuring1530

suring1530

contract1551

insurancea1556

trothing1565

despousage1570

betrothment1585

contracting1585

affiancing1596

spousage1596

espousage1599

handfasta1616

desponsories1645

hand-fastening1662

disposories1668

contraction1702

engagement1811

plightage1819

betrothal1844

heart-bond1887

introduction1965

kwanjula1973

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [noun] > ring

engagement ring1861

engaged ring1869

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > betrothal or wedding-ring

wedding-ringc1386

engagement ring1861

plight-ring1875

wedding band1946

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. iv. 173 She knew her Engagements to Horatio. ]

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. vii. 114 ‘If your engagement had been carried on for months and months..before he chose to put an end to it.’..‘Engagement!’ cried Marianne, ‘there has been no engagement.’

1859 C. Dickens Let. 1 Feb. (1997) IX. 20 Much excited and pleased by your account of your daughter's engagement.

1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 22 She [Sarah] held her engagement to him at an end.

1861 Cassell's Illustr. Family Paper 2 Feb. 160/2 The gentleman wears the engagement ring on the third finger of the left hand; the lady on the third finger of the right hand.

1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xxxix. 372 Angie wore on her finger an engagement-ring.

1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 103 Our blessed Engagement Day! A dear and sacred day.

1909 Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 7/1 Though they had not yet reached the engagement-ring stage, all of her friends were wondering how soon they could begin to plan for the wedding.

1970 C. Kersh Aggravations of Minnie Ashe xiv. 202 He bought an engagement ring (later to be pawned by his widow and never redeemed).

3. The fact of being engaged by an employer; an ‘appointment’, salaried post.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > position or job > [noun]

steadc1000

noteOE

officec1300

ministry?a1475

rooma1485

placea1500

roomth1544

place1558

post1562

berth1720

situation1766

job1781

sit1853

spot1859

billet1870

engagement1884

shop1885

gig1908

lurk1916

possie1916

number1928

site1930

sits vac1945

hat1966

1884 Mrs. Kendal in Daily News 24 Sept. 6/1 He had decided to go on the stage, and all that he wanted was an engagement.

1891 N.E.D. at Engagement Mod. Immediately after his engagement as secretary. He has obtained a lucrative engagement.

†4.

a. Moral or legal obligation; a tie of duty or gratitude. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal obligation > [noun]

dutyc1385

subjectiona1475

engagement1636

obstriction1671

obligation1887

society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > [noun]

artingc1400

oblige1475

obligationc1485

astrictionc1540

religion1578

obligence1610

engagement1636

responsibility1780

1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence v. ii. sig. K^v Since my engagements are so great, that all My best endevours to appeare your creature Can but proclaime my wants.

1675 T. Brooks Word in Season Gen. Ep., in Paradice Opened sig. *^v There is no engagement from God upon any of his people, to run themselves into sufferings wilfully.

1726 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 257 He is known to lie under deep Engagements to that Party.

1816 W. Godwin Caleb Williams (ed. 4) III. xiii. 248 Engagement and inclination equally led me to pass a considerable part of every day in this agreeable society.

†b. Attachment, prepossession, bias. Cf. engage v. 7c, 10 Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > [noun]

forejudging1571

preoccupation1572

prejudicateness1603

prejudicacy1608

forestalment1611

prepossession1638

anticipation1640

prejudice1643

biasedness1667

prevention1671

engagement1689

prejudgement1799

strabismus1844

parti pris1860

1689 Bp. G. Burnet Tracts I. 77 The ingagement that People have to their native Homes appears signally here.

1711 J. Swift Sentiments Church of Eng.-man i, in Misc. Prose & Verse 96 Impartially and without Engagement..to examine their Actions.

c. In Literary Criticism, etc.: = commitment n. 7b. Sometimes with French pronunciation /ɑ̃ɡaʒmɑ̃/.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > [noun] > moral seriousness in art

committedness1884

commitment1948

engagement1948

society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > involvement in social or political issues

committedness1884

commitment1948

engagement1948

1948 P. Mairet tr. J.-P. Sartre Existentialism & Humanism 16 ..[An] important Sartrean concept—engagement—is here translated as ‘commitment’. .. The French word..conveys a shade of meaning different from that of our word ‘engagement’; the existentialism engagement is essentially unilateral.

1950 Theology 53 477 This kind of Christian engagement has been continued.

1952 H. Read Philos. Mod. Art iv. 79 Modern protagonists of ‘engagement’ in art, of socialist realism, of nationalism, etc.

1956 C. Wilson Outsider ii. 38 Sartre, whose theory of commitment or ‘engagement’ ..led him to embrace a modified communism.

1960 Times 16 Mar. (Canberra Suppl.) p. xv/1 In this age of engagement, escapism is deplored.

†5. The fact of being entangled; involved or entangled condition. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity

intrication?a1475

intricatenessa1586

intricacy1602

engagement1642

anfractuosity1645

complicateness1656

intrigue1656

implicateness1685

complexedness1690

complexness1727

complexity1790

complicacy18..

subtlety1815

complicatedness1818

complicity1847

Byzantinism1945

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > entangling or confining > fact of being entangled

engage1628

engagement1642

involvement1706

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 58 From which mortall ingagement wee shall never be free.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xx. 158 Who had been the cause of their ingagement in that great danger.

1648 E. Symmons Vindic. King Charles (new ed.) 335 I thought it to be a matter of so great ingagement.

6. The fact of being engaged in any occupation; a piece of business requiring attention.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun]

busyingeOE

busyOE

busyship?c1225

busyhead1340

occupation?1387

occupyinga1400

businessc1405

vacationc1450

employing1459

employment1542

entertainment1551

activity1570

trade1591

negotiation1628

engagement1661

employ1675

busyness1809

occupancy1826

carry-on1917

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention

workOE

businessa1382

engagement1781

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xii. 108 By the most close meditation and engagement of our minds.

a1729 J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) xi. 213 Play, either by our too constant or too long Engagement in it, becomes like an Employment or Profession.

1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 513 From all his wearisome engagements freed.

7. Swordsmanship. The action of crossing swords. See engage v. 17.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions

buttc1330

overheadc1400

stopc1450

quarter-strokea1456

rabbeta1500

rakea1500

traverse1547

flourish1552

quarter-blow1555

veny1578

alarm1579

venue1591

cut1593

time1594

caricado1595

fincture1595

imbroccata1595

mandritta1595

punta riversa1595

remove1595

stramazon1595

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imbrocado1597

passado1597

counter-time1598

foinery1598

canvasado1601

montant1601

punto1601

stock1602

embrocadoc1604

pass1604

stuck1604

stramazo1606

home thrust1622

longee1625

falsify?1635

false1637

traversion1637

canvassa1641

parade1652

flanconade1664

parry1673

fore-stroke1674

allonge1675

contretemps1684

counter1684

disengaging1684

feint1684

passing1687

under-counter1687

stringere1688

stringering1688

tempo1688

volte1688

overlapping1692

repost1692

volt-coupe1692

volting1692

disarm?1700

stamp1705

passade1706

riposte1707

swoop1711

retreat1734

lunge1748

beat1753

disengage1771

disengagement1771

opposition1771

time thrust1771

timing1771

whip1771

shifting1793

one-two1809

one-two-three1809

salute1809

estramazone1820

remise1823

engage1833

engaging1833

risposta1838

lunging1847

moulinet1861

reprise1861

stop-thrust1861

engagement1881

coupé1889

scrape1889

time attack1889

traverse1892

cut-over1897

tac-au-tac riposte1907

flèche1928

replacement1933

punta dritta1961

1881 J. M. Waite Sabre, Singlestick 19 On crossing swords, which should be about nine inches apart, when it is called an equal engagement, press your blade, etc.

8. The state of being engaged in fight; a battle, conflict, encounter; also formerly, a single combat.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > battle or a battle

i-winc888

fightc893

wic897

wal-slaught?a900

fight-lacc1000

orrestlOE

battle1297

journeyc1330

warc1330

acounteringa1400

fieldc1425

engagement1665

affair1708

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. xv. sig. Q8^v He will never despair of Victory in an engagement, where he may justly hope to have God for his Second.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Ded. sig. Cij Your suppos'd Death in that Engagement, was so generally lamented through the Nation.

1710 London Gaz. No. 4685/2 We daily expect to hear of an Engagement between the Swedish and Danish Fleets in the Baltick.

1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. ix. 211 It was the first engagement in which they were confronted with the future enemies of their nation.

†II. concrete in active sense.

9. That which engages or induces to a course of action; an inducement, motive. Cf. engage v. 8. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates

prickleOE

pritchOE

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brodc1375

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pricka1387

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stirmentc1460

incentive?a1475

fomenta1500

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alarm1587

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rouser1611

stimulator1614

motioner1616

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impulsivea1628

excitation1628

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irritament1634

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impetus1641

driving force1642

driving power1642

engagement1642

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fomentary1657

impulse1660

urgency1664

impeller1686

fillip1699

shove1724

incitive1736

stimulative1747

bonus1787

stimulus1791

impellent1793

stimulant1794

propulsion1800

instigant1833

propulsive1834

motive power1836

evoker1845

motivity1857

afflatus1865

flip1881

urge1882

agent provocateur1888

will to power1896

a shot in the arm1922

motivator1929

driver1971

co-driver1993

1642 J. March Argument Militia 12 What stronger ingagement can there be..to incourage..men forward, in any desperate designe?

1680 Bp. G. Burnet Some Passages Life Rochester (1692) 95 The great expressions of his Love in Dying for us are mighty Engagements to Obey and imitate him.

1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 173 The great Motives and Ingagements to Obedience.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	engagement
释义	engagementn. /ɛnˈɡeɪdʒmənt/ Forms: Also 1600s–1700s in-. Etymology: < engage v. + -ment suffix. I. The action of engaging; the state, condition, or fact of being engaged. †1. The pledging or mortgaging (of property); a mortgage, ‘encumbrance’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > encumbrance or mortgage on property mortgagec1450 encumbrancy1554 engagement1611 encumbrance1629 clag1697 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Engage, a pledge, pawne, gage, ingagement. 1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 144 Hath hee..preseru'd his patrimony from ingagement? 1656 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (1676) 58 An House or Land..free from all ingagements. 2. a. A formal promise, agreement, undertaking, covenant.In 17th cent. applied spec. to various political compacts, esp. to the secret treaty negotiated at Carisbrooke in 1647 between Charles I and commissioners representing the Scottish government. See engager n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] accordc1275 assentc1400 agreement1427 appointment?1440 agreec1475 condition1483 covin1489 agreeance1525 concluding1530 compaction1534 indenture1540 conjurea1547 obsignation?1555 conclusion1569 engage1589 astipulation1595 adstipulation1598 agreation1598 tractation1600 closing1606 dispatch1612 combinationa1616 engagement1617 closure1647 covenantinga1649 adjustment1674 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 252 Which made other 7 cantons partners of that ingagement. 1646 E. Fisher Marrow Mod. Divin. (ed. 2) 22 The parties that were bound, are freed and released from their ingagements. 1651 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1887) V. The engagement was in theis words:—‘I doe declare,’ etc. 1654 D. Dickson Brief Explic. Psalmes cxvi. Introd. 137 This Psalme is a threefold engagement of the Psalmist unto thanksgiving unto God. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 24 He had my ingagement to preach the Sunday following. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xxxv. 209 Such is your Will, and such seem to be your Ingagements. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 28 The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the constitution. View more context for this quotation 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvii. 178 An engagement was drawn up..and brought to me with the signatures of all the company. b. An ‘appointment’ made with another person for any purpose of business, festivity, etc. Also attributive, as engagement book. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > engagement tailyec1425 trystc1480 appointment1533 restipulation1595 pre-engagement1647 ingudgment1650 sponsion1677 engagement1806 commitment1837 date1885 booking1975 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 111 Starting for a long ride, on a dinner-engagement. 1831 B. Disraeli Young Duke I. ii. iii. 144 We damsels shall soon be obliged to carry a book to enrol our engagements..if this system of reversionary dancing be any longer encouraged. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. ii. 15 Anatole, his man..got a sight of her ladyship's engagement-book. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §24. 170 I..would have spent the night there were it not for my engagement with the Guide Chef. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 118 If you have no engagement, suppose that you sit down and tell me what passed. 1886 Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 328/1 On the following morning he [a racehorse] was found to be..incapable of fulfilling an engagement. 1959 T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman i. 19 But what a time for your engagement book! You know what the doctors said: complete relaxation. c. Commerce. In plural. Promises to pay; pecuniary liabilities. In phrase, to meet one's engagements. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt yielding1340 debtc1380 due1439 debitc1450 devoirs1503 debitory1575 debenture1609 money-debt1627 balance (due)1720 outstandings1755 liability1842 engagement1849 live horse1859 payables1896 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 215 They were consequently unable to meet their own engagements. 1891 N.E.D. at Engagement Mod. We regret to inform you that Mr. A. B. is unable to meet his engagements. d. The fact of being engaged to be married; betrothal. Also attributive, esp. as engagement ring. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [noun] truthc1300 betrothingc1315 truthingc1350 espousala1393 troth-plighta1393 desponsationa1400 troth-plightingc1400 ensurance1469 fiançailles1477 handfasting1483 assurancea1513 assuring1530 suring1530 contract1551 insurancea1556 trothing1565 despousage1570 betrothment1585 contracting1585 affiancing1596 spousage1596 espousage1599 handfasta1616 desponsories1645 hand-fastening1662 disposories1668 contraction1702 engagement1811 plightage1819 betrothal1844 heart-bond1887 introduction1965 kwanjula1973 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [noun] > ring engagement ring1861 engaged ring1869 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > betrothal or wedding-ring wedding-ringc1386 engagement ring1861 plight-ring1875 wedding band1946 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. iv. 173 She knew her Engagements to Horatio. View more context for this quotation] 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. vii. 114 ‘If your engagement had been carried on for months and months..before he chose to put an end to it.’..‘Engagement!’ cried Marianne, ‘there has been no engagement.’ View more context for this quotation 1859 C. Dickens Let. 1 Feb. (1997) IX. 20 Much excited and pleased by your account of your daughter's engagement. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 22 She [Sarah] held her engagement to him at an end. 1861 Cassell's Illustr. Family Paper 2 Feb. 160/2 The gentleman wears the engagement ring on the third finger of the left hand; the lady on the third finger of the right hand. 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xxxix. 372 Angie wore on her finger an engagement-ring. 1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 103 Our blessed Engagement Day! A dear and sacred day. 1909 Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 7/1 Though they had not yet reached the engagement-ring stage, all of her friends were wondering how soon they could begin to plan for the wedding. 1970 C. Kersh Aggravations of Minnie Ashe xiv. 202 He bought an engagement ring (later to be pawned by his widow and never redeemed). 3. The fact of being engaged by an employer; an ‘appointment’, salaried post. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > position or job > [noun] steadc1000 noteOE officec1300 ministry?a1475 rooma1485 placea1500 roomth1544 place1558 post1562 berth1720 situation1766 job1781 sit1853 spot1859 billet1870 engagement1884 shop1885 gig1908 lurk1916 possie1916 number1928 site1930 sits vac1945 hat1966 1884 Mrs. Kendal in Daily News 24 Sept. 6/1 He had decided to go on the stage, and all that he wanted was an engagement. 1891 N.E.D. at Engagement Mod. Immediately after his engagement as secretary. He has obtained a lucrative engagement. †4. a. Moral or legal obligation; a tie of duty or gratitude. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > [noun] dutyc1385 subjectiona1475 engagement1636 obstriction1671 obligation1887 society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > [noun] artingc1400 oblige1475 obligationc1485 astrictionc1540 religion1578 obligence1610 engagement1636 responsibility1780 1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence v. ii. sig. K^v Since my engagements are so great, that all My best endevours to appeare your creature Can but proclaime my wants. 1675 T. Brooks Word in Season Gen. Ep., in Paradice Opened sig. ^v There is no engagement from God upon any of his people, to run themselves into sufferings wilfully. 1726 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania* (1852) III. 257 He is known to lie under deep Engagements to that Party. 1816 W. Godwin Caleb Williams (ed. 4) III. xiii. 248 Engagement and inclination equally led me to pass a considerable part of every day in this agreeable society. †b. Attachment, prepossession, bias. Cf. engage v. 7c, 10 Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > [noun] forejudging1571 preoccupation1572 prejudicateness1603 prejudicacy1608 forestalment1611 prepossession1638 anticipation1640 prejudice1643 biasedness1667 prevention1671 engagement1689 prejudgement1799 strabismus1844 parti pris1860 1689 Bp. G. Burnet Tracts I. 77 The ingagement that People have to their native Homes appears signally here. 1711 J. Swift Sentiments Church of Eng.-man i, in Misc. Prose & Verse 96 Impartially and without Engagement..to examine their Actions. c. In Literary Criticism, etc.: = commitment n. 7b. Sometimes with French pronunciation /ɑ̃ɡaʒmɑ̃/. ΘΚΠ society > morality > [noun] > moral seriousness in art committedness1884 commitment1948 engagement1948 society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun] > involvement in social or political issues committedness1884 commitment1948 engagement1948 1948 P. Mairet tr. J.-P. Sartre Existentialism & Humanism 16 ..[An] important Sartrean concept—engagement—is here translated as ‘commitment’. .. The French word..conveys a shade of meaning different from that of our word ‘engagement’; the existentialism engagement is essentially unilateral. 1950 Theology 53 477 This kind of Christian engagement has been continued. 1952 H. Read Philos. Mod. Art iv. 79 Modern protagonists of ‘engagement’ in art, of socialist realism, of nationalism, etc. 1956 C. Wilson Outsider ii. 38 Sartre, whose theory of commitment or ‘engagement’ ..led him to embrace a modified communism. 1960 Times 16 Mar. (Canberra Suppl.) p. xv/1 In this age of engagement, escapism is deplored. †5. The fact of being entangled; involved or entangled condition. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity intrication?a1475 intricatenessa1586 intricacy1602 engagement1642 anfractuosity1645 complicateness1656 intrigue1656 implicateness1685 complexedness1690 complexness1727 complexity1790 complicacy18.. subtlety1815 complicatedness1818 complicity1847 Byzantinism1945 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > entangling or confining > fact of being entangled engage1628 engagement1642 involvement1706 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 58 From which mortall ingagement wee shall never be free. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xx. 158 Who had been the cause of their ingagement in that great danger. 1648 E. Symmons Vindic. King Charles (new ed.) 335 I thought it to be a matter of so great ingagement. 6. The fact of being engaged in any occupation; a piece of business requiring attention. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] busyingeOE busyOE busyship?c1225 busyhead1340 occupation?1387 occupyinga1400 businessc1405 vacationc1450 employing1459 employment1542 entertainment1551 activity1570 trade1591 negotiation1628 engagement1661 employ1675 busyness1809 occupancy1826 carry-on1917 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention workOE businessa1382 engagement1781 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xii. 108 By the most close meditation and engagement of our minds. a1729 J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) xi. 213 Play, either by our too constant or too long Engagement in it, becomes like an Employment or Profession. 1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 513 From all his wearisome engagements freed. 7. Swordsmanship. The action of crossing swords. See engage v. 17. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions buttc1330 overheadc1400 stopc1450 quarter-strokea1456 rabbeta1500 rakea1500 traverse1547 flourish1552 quarter-blow1555 veny1578 alarm1579 venue1591 cut1593 time1594 caricado1595 fincture1595 imbroccata1595 mandritta1595 punta riversa1595 remove1595 stramazon1595 traversa1595 imbrocado1597 passado1597 counter-time1598 foinery1598 canvasado1601 montant1601 punto1601 stock1602 embrocadoc1604 pass1604 stuck1604 stramazo1606 home thrust1622 longee1625 falsify?1635 false1637 traversion1637 canvassa1641 parade1652 flanconade1664 parry1673 fore-stroke1674 allonge1675 contretemps1684 counter1684 disengaging1684 feint1684 passing1687 under-counter1687 stringere1688 stringering1688 tempo1688 volte1688 overlapping1692 repost1692 volt-coupe1692 volting1692 disarm?1700 stamp1705 passade1706 riposte1707 swoop1711 retreat1734 lunge1748 beat1753 disengage1771 disengagement1771 opposition1771 time thrust1771 timing1771 whip1771 shifting1793 one-two1809 one-two-three1809 salute1809 estramazone1820 remise1823 engage1833 engaging1833 risposta1838 lunging1847 moulinet1861 reprise1861 stop-thrust1861 engagement1881 coupé1889 scrape1889 time attack1889 traverse1892 cut-over1897 tac-au-tac riposte1907 flèche1928 replacement1933 punta dritta1961 1881 J. M. Waite Sabre, Singlestick 19 On crossing swords, which should be about nine inches apart, when it is called an equal engagement, press your blade, etc. 8. The state of being engaged in fight; a battle, conflict, encounter; also formerly, a single combat. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > battle or a battle i-winc888 fightc893 wic897 wal-slaught?a900 fight-lacc1000 orrestlOE battle1297 journeyc1330 warc1330 acounteringa1400 fieldc1425 engagement1665 affair1708 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. xv. sig. Q8^v He will never despair of Victory in an engagement, where he may justly hope to have God for his Second. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Ded. sig. Cij Your suppos'd Death in that Engagement, was so generally lamented through the Nation. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4685/2 We daily expect to hear of an Engagement between the Swedish and Danish Fleets in the Baltick. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. ix. 211 It was the first engagement in which they were confronted with the future enemies of their nation. †II. concrete in active sense. 9. That which engages or induces to a course of action; an inducement, motive. Cf. engage v. 8. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates prickleOE pritchOE alighting1340 brodc1375 bellowsc1386 pricka1387 motivec1390 prompting1402 preparativec1450 stirmentc1460 incentive?a1475 fomenta1500 farda1522 instigation1526 pointing1533 swinge1548 spur1551 whetstone1551 goad1567 promptitude1578 alarm1587 inducement1593 solicitor1594 incitement1596 inflammation1597 instance1597 excitement1604 moving spirit1604 heart-blood1606 inflamer1609 rouser1611 stimulator1614 motioner1616 incensivea1618 incitative1620 incitation1622 whettera1625 impulsivea1628 excitation1628 incendiary1628 dispositive1629 fomentationa1631 switch1630 stirrer1632 irritament1634 provocative1638 impetus1641 driving force1642 driving power1642 engagement1642 firer1653 propellant1654 fomentary1657 impulse1660 urgency1664 impeller1686 fillip1699 shove1724 incitive1736 stimulative1747 bonus1787 stimulus1791 impellent1793 stimulant1794 propulsion1800 instigant1833 propulsive1834 motive power1836 evoker1845 motivity1857 afflatus1865 flip1881 urge1882 agent provocateur1888 will to power1896 a shot in the arm1922 motivator1929 driver1971 co-driver1993 1642 J. March Argument Militia 12 What stronger ingagement can there be..to incourage..men forward, in any desperate designe? 1680 Bp. G. Burnet Some Passages Life Rochester (1692) 95 The great expressions of his Love in Dying for us are mighty Engagements to Obey and imitate him. 1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 173 The great Motives and Ingagements to Obedience. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1611
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