preengagement

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ engagement

Noun

preengagement (plural preengagements)

1. Prior engagement or obligation, as 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “preengagement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)