preengagement
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pre- + engagement.
Noun
[edit]preengagement (plural preengagements)
- Prior engagement or obligation, for example by contract or promise.
- 1650s-1660s', Robert Boyle, Some Specimens of an Attempt to make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy
- My pre-engagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write.
- unchangeable preengagement
- 1650s-1660s', Robert Boyle, Some Specimens of an Attempt to make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy
References
[edit]- “preengagement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.