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Engaged   /ɛngˈeɪdʒd/   Listen
verb
Engage  v. t.  (past & past part. engaged; pres. part. engaging)  
1.
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. "I to thee engaged a prince's word."
2.
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.
3.
To gain over; to win and attach; to attract and hold; to draw. "Good nature engages everybody to him."
4.
To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on. "Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage." "Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation."
5.
To enter into contest with; to encounter; to bring to conflict. "A favorable opportunity of engaging the enemy."
6.
(Mach.) 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.  
1.
To promise or pledge one's self; to enter into an obligation; to become bound; to warrant. "How proper the remedy for the malady, I engage not."
2.
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.
3.
To enter into conflict; to join battle; as, the armies engaged in a general battle.
4.
(Mach.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.


adjective
Engaged  adj.  
1.
Occupied; employed; busy.
2.
Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.
3.
Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
4.
Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, the engaged ships continued the fight.
Engaged column. (Arch.) Same as Attached column. See under Attach, v. t.





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"Engaged" Quotes from Famous Books



... have given you anything since we were engaged, Mary,' he said, as he seated himself ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... Justice BANKS recently referred to the possible establishment of a Law Courts' creche, where the female barrister might leave her young while engaged in forensic duties.] ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 23, 1919 • Various
... this hall sat Mr. Sherwood during most part of the morning, either engaged with his accounts, his journal, or his books. He, of course, did not like the confinement so well as I did, and often contrived to get out to a neighbour's bungalow in his palanquin during some part of the long morning. In one of the side-rooms sat Sergeant Clarke, with his books and accounts. ...
— The Fairchild Family • Mary Martha Sherwood
... inestimable value; but even the letters that Goldsmith wrote home from time to time are lost; while The Traveller consists chiefly of a series of philosophical reflections on the government of various states, more likely to have engaged the attention of a Fleet-Street author, living in an atmosphere of books, than to have occupied the mind of a tramp anxious about his supper and his night's lodging. Boswell says he "disputed" his way through Europe. It is much more probable that he begged his way through Europe. The romantic ...
— Goldsmith - English Men of Letters Series • William Black
... upon a low stool he began to pick up the crumbs, carrying them to his mouth one by one with unbelievable rapidity. In the dense blotch of light beneath the table, the kneeling figure looked like a priest engaged in some service of his church. The nervous expressive fingers, flashing in and out of the light, might well have been mistaken for the fingers of the devotee going swiftly through decade after decade of ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson


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