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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wage \Wage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waged}; p. pr & vb n.
{Waging}.] [OE. wagen, OF wagier, gagier, to pledge,
promise, F. gager to wager, lay, bet, fr LL wadium a
pledge; of Teutonic origin; cf Goth. wadi a pledge,
gawadj[=o]n to pledge, akin to E. wed, G. wette a wager. See
{Wed}, and cf {Gage}.]
1. To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake;
to bet, to lay; to wager; as to wage a dollar. --Hakluyt.
My life I never but as a pawn To wage against thy
enemies. --Shak.
2. To expose one's self to as a risk; to incur, as a danger;
to venture; to hazard. ``Too weak to wage an instant trial
with the king.'' --Shak.
To wake and wage a danger profitless. --Shak.
3. To engage in as a contest, as if by previous gage or
pledge; to carry on as a war.
[He pondered] which of all his sons was fit To reign
and wage immortal war with wit. --Dryden.
The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the
destruction of the other --I. Taylor.
4. To adventure, or lay out for hire or reward; to hire out
[Obs.] ``Thou . . . must wage thy works for wealth.''
--Spenser.
5. To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to
[Obs.]
Abundance of treasure which he had in store,
wherewith he might wage soldiers. --Holinshed.
I would have them waged for their labor. --Latimer.
6. (O. Eng. Law) To give security for the performance of
--Burrill.
{To wage battle} (O. Eng. Law), to give gage, or security,
for joining in the duellum or combat. See {Wager of
battel}, under {Wager}, n. --Burrill.
{To wage one's law} (Law), to give security to make one's
law. See {Wager of law}, under {Wager}, n.
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