engaged ness (engajednes)

The state being engaged, or seriously and earnestly occupied; zeal; animation. engagement (en-gāj'ment), n. in gage ment; = [Formerly also D. G. Dan. Sw. engagement, 1930 9. In fencing, the joining of weapons with an adversary: as, an engagement in carte, tierce, etc. Rolando (ed. Forsyth). - The Engagement, in British hist., the name given to a treaty entered into in 1647 between Charles I., then in the hands of the Parliamentary army, and commi ioners on behalf of the moderate Presbyterians in Scotland, whereby the latter, for certain conce ions on the king's part, engaged to deliver him from captivity by force of arms. = Syn. 2. Pledge, etc. (see promise, n.), contract.-8. Conflict, Fight, etc. See battlel.