To interact socially.
Thus ſhall mankind his guardian care engage, / The promis'd father of the future age.
To interact antagonistically.
1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy
To interact contractually.
For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
From Middle English engagen, from Old French engagier (“to pledge, engage”), from Frankish *anwadjōn (“to pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *an-, *andi- + Proto-Germanic *wadjōną (“to pledge, secure”), fr...
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