gage
noun
something, as a glove, thrown down by a medieval knight in token of challenge to combat.
gaged
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past participleof gage.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
-
past tense formof gage.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
gagenounsomething, as a glove, thrown down by a medieval knight in token of challenge to combat. -
a word form of
gage.
gagenounsomething, as a glove, thrown down by a medieval knight in token of challenge to combat.
Example Sentences
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Obviously, the U.S. was using as a "cover" the story that the U-2 was en gaged in weather-reconnaissance work.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been a lecturer at Yale, an assistant editor of the Yale Review, and during part of the War had en gaged in liason work abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ex-Ambassador Bullitt pointed to one difficulty: "The state of mind here today is about what it was in France a year before they en gaged in war with Germany."
From Time Magazine Archive
Aside from the academic contribution to the explosion of U.S. interest in the arts, almost no town is too big or too small to be en gaged in a new cultural enterprise of some kind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though the intense darkness prevented him from seeing anything, Buck felt at last that he had correctly gaged the position of the unknown plotter.
From Shoe-Bar Stratton by George W. Gage
