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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wage \Wage\, verb (used with an object) [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}, noun --Burrill.
{To wage one's law} (Law), to give security to make one's law. See {Wager of law}, under {Wager}, noun
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