re-engagev.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rengager, to reingage.

1646 W. Jenkyn Reformation's Remora 1 It being indeed the main errand of this Prophet, to stir them up to re-ingage themselves in that work.

1706 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) IV. 140 You ne'er shall re-engage my heart, Revolted from your tyranny.

1744 E. F. Haywood Fortunate Foundlings vi. 72 Seeing Charlotta had just broke off some conversation she had been entertained with, [he] made what haste he could to prevent her from being re-engaged.

1788 R. Holmes Four Tracts i. 32 Provision had been made to recall and re engage the affection of the human heart.

1828 R. Southey On Picture xiv If then the power to thee were given In that cold form its life to re-engage.

1870 Act 33 & 34 Victoria c. 67 §8 Any soldier who being in army service has commenced the twelfth year from his first enlistment..may..be reengaged.

1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xv. 162 The school year was ended, she had been reëngaged for the next.

1951 F. Whiteley Gear Manuf.: Bk. 3 iii. 31 It is also possible to wind back the hob saddle after the first cut, re-engage the feed for the second cut, and find that the hob tooth is in a positive relative position to the gear tooth.

1993 Sci. Amer. Dec. 16/2 (caption) The original areas of the brain are reengaged when the subject is given a list of new nouns.

1649 Moderate Intelligencer No. 221. 2086 Which partie they think fit to revive and re-ingage upon the same.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 204 It put him in so fierce a Rage, He once resolv'd to re-ingage.

1757 T. Smollett Compl. Hist. Eng. II. iii. 585 Clement had by this time..absolutely refused to reingage in the league with France, England, and Venice.

1789 Authentic Copy Trial Sir Hugh Palliser 188 The Admiral had given up all thoughts of re-engaging.

1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. i. 499 Brühl has ever since rather held back; would not reëngage at all.

1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 335/1 Soldiers who have declined to re~engage abroad, and have been sent home at the public expense, will not be permitted to re-engage in this country.

1897 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 June 16/4 A number of kanaka regulations were framed compelling time-expired boys to re-engage at the close of one month.

1915–19 J. Buchan Nelson's Hist. War XIV. ciii. 147 At 7.18 Beatty increased speed to twenty-two knots, and re-engaged.

1999 Sea Angler May 43/3 Keep an eye on the instant anti-reverse too. If you accidentally catch the handle during the cast it will automatically re-engage.

1651 Mercurius Politicus No. 82 1312 The English at the Louver boast much again of the Duke of Lorain's re-ingaging in the Irish business.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 20 The disengaging and reengaging of the moving parts.

1932 P. Bentley Inheritance ii. iii. 200 He instantly set on foot arrangements for the cleaning of the whole mill, for the re-engaging of the men, and for the lighting of the boiler fires.

2000 T. McFarland Masks of Keats vii. 214 The stanza begins with the dramatic re-engaging of the dialexis.