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Webster 1913 Edition

Engagement

En-gage′ment

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
engagement
.]
1.
The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
2.
The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
3.
That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in;
as, his
engagements
prevented his acceptance of any office
.
Religion, which is the chief
engagement
of our league.
Milton.
4.
(Mil.)
An action; a fight; a battle.
In hot
engagement
with the Moors.
Dryden.
Syn. – Vocation; business; employment; occupation; promise; stipulation; betrothal; word; battle; combat; fight; contest; conflict. See
Battle
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Engagement

ENGA'GEMENT

,
Noun.
The act of pawning, pledging or making liable for debt.
1.
Obligation by agreement or contract. Men are often more ready to make engagements than to fulfil them.
2.
Adherence to a party or cause; partiality.
3.
Occupation; employment of the attention.
Play, by too long or constant engagement, becomes
like an employment or profession.
4.
Employment in fighting; the conflict of armies or fleets; battle; a general action; appropriately the conflict of whole armies or fleets, but applied to actions between small squadrons or single ships, rarely to a fight between detachments of land forces.
5.
Obligation; motive; that which engages.

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