engage (the S. uses are the foll.)
1.
to pledge,
pawn, mortgage
Tim. II. ii. 156
“let all my land be
sold.—'Tis all e-'d”
; to keep as a hostage 1H4 IV. iii. 95, V. ii. 43.
2.
to pledge (one's
word, one's honour, &c.) Err. V. i. 162,
AYL. V. iv. 173
“I do my life,”
1H4 II. iv. 571 [563], Cæs. II. i. 127,
Oth. III. iii. 463
“I here engage my
words.”
3.
to bind (one) by a
promise or undertaking Ado IV. i.
339,
LLL. IV. iii. 178
“the vow I am e-d
in,”
R2 I. iii. 17,
Troil. V. iii. 68
“e-d to many Greeks . .
. to appear . . . to them.”
4.
to entangle, involve
Ham. III. iii. 69
“O limed soul, that
struggling to be free Art more
engaged!.”
5.
to enlist; refl. and
pass. to embark on an enterprise
1H4 I. i. 21
“impressed and e-'d to
fight,”
Troil. II. ii. 124,
V. v. 39, Ant. IV. vii. 1.
