WAGED
Verb
waged
simple past tense and past participle of wage
Anagrams
• gawed, wadge
Source: Wiktionary
WAGE
Wage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waged; p. pr. & vb. n. Waging.] Etym: [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, gawadjon 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)
Definition: 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.
Wage, v. i.
Definition: To bind one's self; to engage. [Obs.]
Wage, n. Etym: [OF. wage, gage, guarantee, engagement. See Wage, v.
t. ]
1. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk
or danger; prize; gage. [Obs.] "That warlike wage." Spenser.
2. That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for
service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally
used in the plural. See Wages. "My day's wage." Sir W. Scott. "At
least I earned my wage." Thackeray. "Pay them a wage in advance." J.
Morley. "The wages of virtue." Tennyson.
By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him engage, By
promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to carry. Drayton.
Our praises are our wages. Shak.
Existing legislation on the subject of wages. Encyc. Brit.
Note: Wage is used adjectively and as the first part of compounds
which are usually self-explaining; as, wage worker, or wage-worker;
wage-earner, etc. Board wages. See under 1st Board.
Syn.
– Hire; reward; stipend; salary; allowance; pay; compensation;
remuneration; fruit.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition