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Engagement (medicine)


engagement


1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.

2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif, a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.

3. That which engages; engrossing occupation; Employment of the attention; 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)

4. An action; a fight; a battle. "In hot engagement with the Moors." (Dryden)

5. <machinery> The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the Other part.

Synonym: Vocation, business, Employment, occupation, promise, stipulation, betrothal, word, battle, combat, fight, contest, conflict. See Battle.

Origin: Cf. F. Engagement.

Source: Websters Dictionary


exhort (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: French; Origin: exhorter, from Latin exhortari, from hortari 'to suggest very strongly']
formal to try very hard to persuade someone to do something
-synonym urge urge exhort sb to do sth
::Police exhorted the crowd to remain calm.
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