pre-engagedadj.
/ˌpriːᵻnˈɡeɪdʒd/, /ˌpriːɛnˈɡeɪdʒd/, /ˌpriːᵻŋˈɡeɪdʒd/, /ˌpriːɛŋˈɡeɪdʒd/, U.S. /ˌpriᵻnˈɡeɪdʒd/ That has been engaged beforehand.
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1647 Engagem. Lords & Commons that went to Army (title page) Whether it makes not those that Subscribed it, pre-ingaged parties.
1665 J. Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica xvi. 94 [They] owe their credit more to customary and præingag'd Assent, then to any rational inducement.
1719 J. Barker Bosvil & Galesia 25 My pre-ingaged Resolution of a single Life.
1768 H. Kelly False Delicacy v. 74 He that stoops to accept of a pre-engaged mind.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) I. 3 But the law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse.
1884 Freeborn County (Albert Lea, Minnesota) Standard 13 Aug. [He] will bribe the railway guard to induce delicate women to leave their pre-engaged carriage in order that he may not sit with his back to the engine.
1997 Oxf. Compan. Brit. Hist. 530 Several thousand persons were displaced for refusing to promise that if elected they..would vote for such pre-engaged candidates.
Compounds
pre-engaged starter n. (also more fully pre-engaged starter motor) a starter motor in which activation of the solenoid causes a pinion to engage with the engine flywheel gearing before the full electric current flows.
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1964 Times 9 Oct. 7 (advt.) Other important technical advancements include..New cooling system, Alternator and pre-engaged starter.
1998 Motor Boat & Yachting Jan. 88/2 Most diesels have a more rugged set-up, called a pre-engaged starter.
2004 Central Coast Express (Austral.) (Nexis) 20 Aug. A pre-engaged starter motor, uprated brakes and alternator were also added to make a much improved driver-friendly car.
Derivatives
ˌpre-enˈgagedness n. rare.
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1903 A. J. Wilson in Speaker 28 Mar. 597/1 Demands its poverty or pre-engagedness forbids it to gratify.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- to, for, on, formerly into behoof of
- to, for, on, formerly into the behoof of
- to, for, on, formerly till behoof of
- to, for, on, formerly till the behoof of
- to, for, on, the behoof of
- to, in wed
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- to, on, upon, in, at covenant
- to, on, upon, in, at the covenant
- to-
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- to-beat
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