Lexic.us

Definition of Engaged

1. Adjective. Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged. "Deeply engaged in conversation"

2. Adjective. Involved in military hostilities. "The desperately engaged ships continued the fight"

3. Adjective. Reserved in advance.

4. Adjective. (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; ('engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line). "Kept getting a busy signal"

5. Adjective. (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting. "Intermeshed twin rotors"

6. Adjective. Having services contracted for. "The carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick"

7. Adjective. Built against or attached to a wall. "Engaged columns"

Definition of Engaged

1. a. Occupied; employed; busy.

Definition of Engaged

1. Verb. (past of engage) ¹

2. Adjective. Agreed to be married. ¹

3. Adjective. Busy or employed. ¹

4. Adjective. (British) (context: of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls it ¹

5. Adjective. (architecture of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway ¹

6. Adjective. (context: of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Engaged

1. engage [v] - See also: engage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Engaged

enfreedom enfreedomed enfreedoming enfreedoms enfreeing enfrees enfreeze enfreezes enfringe enfrosen

enfroze enfrozen enfuvirtide engage engageable engaged (current term) engaged tone engagedly engagedness engagement

engagement ring engagement rings engagements engager engagers engages engaging engagingly engagingness engagor

Literary usage of Engaged

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"The old red sandstone engaged a large share of his attention, ... But many other departments of natural science likewise engaged his attention and his pen. ..."

2. The Early Records of the Town of Providence by Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners (1896)
"Pardon Tillinghast Chosen Towne Treasurer & engaged. ... Jonathan Sprague junr: engaged serjant Tho: ffield engaged on ye Councill, James Bick & Peter ..."

3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... engaged tlio Athenians at an curlier hour, but on the same plun of attack, both by sea nnd by land. And being opposed in the saino manner with their ..."

4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1882)
"He engaged to be with them by four o'clock. CHAPTER XV. MRS. DASHWOOD'S visit to Lady Middleton took place the next day, and two of her daughters went with ..."

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