engagest

Verb

engage (third-person singular simple present engages, present participle engaging, simple past and past participle engaged)

1. (transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
   • Thus ſhall mankind his guardian care engage, / The promis'd father of the future age.1712 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil’s Pollio.”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton, H....

   Synonyms:

   immerse

2. (ambitransitive) To draw into conversation.
   • the difficult task of engaging him in conversation1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introductory”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC
3. To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
   • This humanity and good nature engages every body to him, so that when he is pleasant upon any of them all his family are in a good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with: […]1711 July 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SUNDAY, July 2, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 106; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New...
4. (transitive) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
   • a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs
5. (intransitive) To enter into battle.
6. (transitive) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
   • For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition...

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