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Webster 1913 Edition

Preengage

Preˊën-gage′

,

Verb.

T.

[

imp. & p. p.

Preëngaged

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Preëngaging

.]

To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy.

But he was

preëngaged

by former ties.

Dryden.