Word Meanings - FOREPROMISED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.

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• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• PROMISCUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being promiscuous.
• PROMISOR
  One who engages or undertakes; a promiser. Burrill.
• PROMISCUOUSLY
  In a promiscuous manner.
• PROMISER
  One who promises.
• PROMISING
  Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day. -- Prom"is*ing*ly, adv.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• PROMISSORY
  Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne. Promissory note , a written promise to pay to some person named, and at a time specified therein, or on demand, or at sight, a certain sum of money, absolutely and
• PROMISE
  An engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard
• PROMISEE
  The person to whom a promise is made.
• PROMISCUITY
  Promiscuousness; confusion. H. Spencer.
• PROMISCUOUS
  1. Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass. A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot. Pope. 2. Distributed or applied without order
• PROMISSIVE
  Making a promise; implying a promise; promising.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• FOREPROMISED
  Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• DISENGAGING
  Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.
• COMPROMISER
  One who compromises.
• PREENGAGEMENT
  Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• ENGAGE
  To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part. (more info) Etym: 1. To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as
• DRENGAGE
  The tenure by which a drench held land. Burrill.
• ENGAGER
  One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.