Word Finder - engage

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(heading) To interact socially.

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(heading) To interact antagonistically.

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(heading) To interact contractually.

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(heading) To interact mechanically.

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To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).

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To entangle.

He may not engage in any business.

Another class of subjects was now to engage his attention.

Left with nothing else to do, Dean turned to Gladys Turnbull, more out of inn-keeper politeness than a desire to engage this strange woman in lengthy conversation.

Restrictions on their occupations were everywhere common, and as the Church forbade Christians to engage in usury, this was the only trade open to the Jews.

She was forbidden to engage the operator in any conversation and make the call as brief as possible.

Tiny countries willing to engage in free trade with their neighbors can prosper.

Janissaries leisure to engage in plots against the sultan, and in order to occupy them and to remove them from the capital advantage was taken of the king of Poland having intervened in the affairs of Transylvania and the principalities to declare war against him.

He agreed whole heartedly to engage a psychiatrist.

Once clear of town, Dean drove along at a brisk clip, trying without success to engage Martha in conversation.

The communications and control panels were disabled, but I figured out how to engage the shields.

Promising pupils are frequently sent to Vienna University, with scholarships, which may be forfeited if the holders engage in political agitation.

Engage in water sports, dine at on-site restaurants or work out at the health club during your stay.

Saussier had to engage in numerous fights.

For instance, on the twenty-eighth it is suggested to him to cross to the Kaluga road, but just then an adjutant gallops up from Miloradovich asking whether he is to engage the French or retire.

After a year and a half in London, Franklin was persuaded by a friend named Denham, a Quaker merchant, to return with him to America and engage in mercantile business; he accordingly gave up printing, but a few days before sailing he received a tempting offer to remain and give lessons in swimming - his feats as a swimmer having given him considerable reputation - and he says that he might have consented " had the overtures been sooner made."

A prolonged fight now ensued, in which the Bavarians had the worst of it, and Weert, returning at last to the field, dared not attempt to engage afresh.

Repeated orders sent to the commander of the division left by D'Erlon failed to induce him to engage his command decisively, and thus Napoleon obtained no direct co-operation from his left wing on this, the first decisive day of the campaign.

I simply did not want to engage with a linear narrative.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.

How frequently should patients engage in the activities?

When the old man tried to engage him in further conversation—this time about Pumpkin Green and the general irresponsibility of today's youth—he excused himself on an important errand and left Westlake standing in the hall.

Rhyn was the first to engage any demon in his way while Tamer and Erik beheaded every creature that crossed their paths.

She did attempt to engage an uninterested climber in a conversation about her Great-aunt Annie being one of the founders of the Ouray Woman's Club, back in 1897 and how she helped form the Ouray Library, with her friend, the famous millionaire, of Hope Diamond fame, Tom Walsh.

Among more eminent Genoese cartographers are Joannes da Carignano 1344), Petrus Vesconte, who worked in 1311 and 1327, and is the draughtsman of the maps illustrating Marino Sanuto's Liber secretorum fidelium crucis, which was to have roused Christendom to engage in another crusade (figs.

Under his command the fleet made no attempt to blockade the Dutch coast, but was turned from its proper work to engage in a prize-hunting plot with the king of Denmark.

It is probable that from an early age his inquiring disposition led him to engage in travels, both in Greece and in foreign countries.

They engage your cat's mind as well as his body; both are necessary to keep your cat completely healthy.

Listen to her when she speaks to you and engage in conversation with her.

It was a cavalry melee, in which the common code of honour caused Macedonian and Persian chieftains to engage hand to hand, and at the end of the day the relics of the Persian army were in flight, leaving the high-roads of Asia Minor clear for the invader.

Leopold, intent on the doings of his perennial rival Louis XIV., was 10th to engage in an eastern war even for the liberation of Hungary, which he regarded as of far less importance than a strip or two of German territory on the Rhine.

With seal skins the process is longer than with any other fur preparation and the series of processes engage many specialists, each man being constantly kept upon one section of the work.

After his first marriage he began to engage in intrigues.

The Dutch, who have retained in a debased form their own language, also engage largely in agriculture and viticulture.

As they revolve these brushes engage the tea in the hopper, draw it out by degrees, and drop it into a compartment of a circular drum which hangs on one end is placed in the weights-pan of the balance, and is the only loose weight used with the machine.

The impression made on the Scots was so great that for some years they refused to engage in another pitched battle.

Their reply to this very modified show of mercy was to engage in a desperate conspiracy against him.

ConTo it was added the Schism Act (1714), forbidding formity dissenters to keep schoolsor engage in tuition.

They used to attend the temple in rotation, and be present at the sacrifices; and as this duty fell to each in his turn, the men of the class or family which he represented were expected in their several cities and places of abode to engage themselves in religious exercises, and especially in fasting.

Such problems engage the official theologians of the Church of Rome.

Two classes of boats engage in the pursuit - a large size of from 1 2 to 14 tons, manned by ten or twelve hands, and a small size of 3 or 4 tons, with a crew of five or six.

The kingdom at peace and the Huguenot Richeicu party ruined, he was now able to engage upon his and policy of prudent acquisitions and apparently dis- 6ustavus interested alliances, But Gustavus Adolphus, king Adoiphus.

It also managed to engage private interests in state reform by creating the Grand Livre de la Dette Publique (September 1326, 1793), and enlisted peasant and bourgeois savings in social reforms by the distribution and sale of national property.

The Red Sea ports trade largely with Arabia and engage in pearl fishery.

In the typical newts (Molge) of Europe, the males are adorned during the breeding season with bright colours and crests or other ornamental dermal appendages, and, resorting to the water, they engage in a lengthy courtship accompanied by lively evolutions around the females, near which they deposit their spermatozoa in bundles on a gelatinous mass, the spermatophore, probably secreted by the cloacal gland.

Schiller at this period in vain sought to engage Kant upon his Horen.

When the old man tried to engage him in further conversation—this time about Pumpkin Green and the general irresponsibility of today's youth—he excused himself on an important errand and left Westlake standing in the hall.

Or, another plan is that we can choose to engage positively with those who seem most amenable to change.

This is valuable information as we struggle with how to engage early-adopters who demonstrate a high propensity for commercial avoidance.

Only having established a secure foundation, we are in a position to engage in ethical rhetoric.

Do not engage in rough, physical or sexually provocative games, including horseplay.