transitive. To urge or incite (a person) to an action, or to do something; to apply or appeal to; to make a proposal or request to. Obsolete.

transitive. To exhort, encourage, incite. Const. to with infinitive, and simply. Also with noun as object: To recommend, suggest, insist upon.

transitive. To admonish earnestly; to urge by stimulating words to conduct regarded as laudable. Said… simply.

transitive. To exhort.

transitive. To exhort, urge; (also) to encourage, promote. Frequently with to or infinitive.

To hasten or press forward (a proceeding, enterprise, etc.); to prosecute with effort, energy, or vigour; to push forward.

To urge, exhort, persuade, induce; said both of persons and of motives, etc. In 18th cent. often approaching the sense of French engager ‘to…