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engager|ɛnˈgeɪdʒə(r)|
[f. engage v. + -er.]
1. a. One who enters into an engagement or agreement; † a surety, guarantor. b. One who engages in an enterprise or occupation. c. One who engages the service of another; an employer.
1653Waterhouse Apol. Learn. 125 (L.) Rash motions have lost noble enterprises and their engagers. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon., ii. 293 That [the Italian Opera] might be performed with all decency..several sufficient Citizens were engagers. 1865Reader No. 143. 342/2 Such pastimes..the engager in them.
†2. spec. One of those who signed or approved of the ‘Engagement’ of 1647: see engagement 2. Obs. exc. Hist.
1650Donne Junr. in Donne's Lett. (1651) Ded., What of them that were both Covenanters and Engagers too. 1650Ld. Cassilis in Nicholas Papers (1886) 188 The confluence of Malignants and Engagers about him [Chas. II] in the Army. 1761–2Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lx. 521 An army which admitted any engagers or malignants among them. |