Preengage

Pre`en`gage´


v. t.1.To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy.
[imp. & p. p. Preëngaged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Preëngaging .]
But he was preëngaged by former ties.
- Dryden.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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