Word Meanings - REENGAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To engage a second time or again.
Related words: (words related to REENGAGE)
- SECOND
1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - SECOND-CLASS
Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage. - AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, - SECONDER
One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion. - SECONDLY
In the second place. - ENGAGEDNESS
The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal. - SECOND-SIGHT
The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer. - SECOND-SIGHTED
Having the power of second-sight. Addison. - SECONDHAND
1. Not original or primary; received from another. They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge. Locke. 2. Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment. At second hand. See Hand, n., 10. - ENGAGER
One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood. - SECOND-RATE
Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden. - AGAINWARD
Back again. - ENGAGEDLY
With attachment; with interest; earnestly. - AGAINBUY
To redeem. Wyclif. - ENGAGED
1. Occupied; employed; busy. 2. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed. 3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest. 4. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as, - SECONDARINESS
The state of being secondary. Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant. - REENGAGEMENT
A renewed or repeated engagement. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - 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. - 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. - AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used. - 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 - THIRTY-SECOND
Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note , the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver. - DRENGAGE
The tenure by which a drench held land. Burrill.
