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ntion; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office. Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league. Milton.

The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of views, of knowledge, of affection.

Act of enraging or state of being enraged; excitement. [Obs.]

The act of envisaging.

The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.

A process of reproduction intermediate between fission and gemmation.

A skilled smith, who has a hammerer to assist him.

Leading; controlling; ruling; predominant. "Princelike and hegemonical." Fotherby.

Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates. Lieber.

The act of impinging.

Confinement in, or as in, cage. [Obs.] Shelton.

Indulgence. [R.] Wood.

The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.

To redouble or repeat; to reiterate. Clarendon. . . . She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears relates. Sandys.

Repetition; reduplication; reiteration. De Quincey. That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen. Featley. Happiness with an echo or ingemination. Holdsworth.

Mutual transfer; exchange. [Obs.] Shak.

Judgment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Ledgment.

See Ledgment.