engager (engajer)

1. One who engages or secures.-2. One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. And that they [Italian operas] might be performed with all decency, seemline , and without rudene and profanene , John Maynard... and several sufficient citizens were engagers . Wood, Athenæ Oxon. 3. [cap.] In Scottish hist., one of a party who supported the treaty called "The Engagement," IMG:content-0485.png:[blocks in formation] Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires, Blown up with high conceits in gendering pride. Milton , P. L., iv. 809. From the prejudices engendered by the Church, I pa to the prejudices engendered by the army itself. Sumner , Orations, I. 59. =Syn. 2. To call forth, create, give rise to, occasion, stir up. II. in trans. 1. To be caused or produced; come into existence. Take hede they speake no wordes of villany, for it causeth much corruption to in gender in them. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 64. Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there. Dryden. and who joined in the invasion of England con- sequent on it. See phrase under engagement . engaging (en-ga'jing), p . a . [Ppr. of engage , v.] 2. To come together; meet in sexual embrace. Winning; attractive; tending to draw the attention, the interest, or the affections; pleasing: as, engaging manners or addre . His [Horace's] addre es to the persons who favoured him are so inimitably engaging , that August us complained of him for so seldom writing to him. Steele , Tatler, No. 173. That common-sense which is one of the most useful, though not one of the most engaging , properties of the [English] race. Lowell , Books and Libraries. The Greeks combine the energy of manhood with the engaging unconsciousne of childhood. Emerson, History. engagingly (en-ga'jing-li), adr. In an engaging manner; so as to win the affections. engagingne (en-ga'jing-nes), n. The quality of being engaging; attractivene ; attraction: as, the engagingne of his manners. gal- F. engagement = It. ingaggiamento, F.en gager, etc.), engage: see engage and -ment.] 1. The act of engaging, binding, or pledging, or the state of being engaged, bound, or pledged. These are they who have bound the land with the sinne of Sacrilege, from which mortal in gage ment wee shall never be free till wee have totally remov'd with one labour as one individuall thing Prelaty and Sacrilege. Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 2. That to which one is engaged or pledged; an agreement; an appointment; a contract; an undertaking: as, he failed to fulfil his engage IMG:content-0486.png:[blocks in formation] lant.] To make a gallant of. I would have you direct all your courtship thither; if you could but endear yourself to her affection, you were eternally eng all anted . B. Jonson , Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. engaolt (en-jal'), v . t. An obsolete form of en jail . engarboilt (en-gär'boil), v. t. [ en -1 + gar boil .] To disorder. It is strange, that for wishing, advising, and in his owne particular using and ensuing that moderation, thereby not to engarboile the church, and disturb the course of piety, IMG:content-0487.png:[blocks in formation] Luff ingendreth with ioye, as in a iust sawle, And hate in his hote yre hast is to wer. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 7959. The council of Trent and the Spanish inquisition, ingen dering together, brought forth those catalogues and expurgating indexes. Milton, Areopagitica. engenderer (en-jen'der-ér), n. [= F. engendreur Pr. engenraire , engenrador = Sp. en gendrador = It. ingener a tore , inge nerator , ingener are , engender: see engender . ] One who or that which engenders; a begetter. The in gender ers and in gendered. Sir J. Davies, Wittes Pilgrimage, sig. O, 1.