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ENFRO'ZEN, part: Congealed with cold. Not ifed: 
Yet to augment (he anguifh of my fmart. 
Thou-haft enfrozen her difdainful bread:, 
That no one drop of pity there doth reft. Spcnfer. 
ENG ADT'N A, a diftrfSt in the country of the Grifons, 
in a valley on the banks oft the river Inn, bordering on 
the" Tyrohjfe, divided into Upper' and Lower. Upper 
Engadina is divided into two communities ; the number 
of inhabitants is eftimated at four thoufand, four or five 
hundred of whom emigrate to foreign countries in diffe-' 
rent capacities. The country, on account of its eleva¬ 
tion, produces pafture, but not fufficient corn for the 
wants of the people: Zutz isefteemed the principal place. 
Lower Engadina is divided into three communities'; the 
foil is more fertile than in Upper Engadina, and produces 
abundance of fruit, and all things necefiary for the inha¬ 
bitants. Cernetzds the principal place. 
To ENGA'GE, v r. a. [engager, Fr.] To make liable 
for a debt to a creditor : 
I have engag'd myfelf to a dear friend. 
Engag'd my friend to his mere enemy, - 
To find my means. Shakefpeare. 
To impawn; to (lake : 
They moll perfidioufly condemn 
Thofe that engag'd their lives for them. Hudibras. 
To enlift; to bring into a party.—All wicked men are of 
a party againft religion: fome luft orintereft engageth 
them againft it. Tillotfon. —To embark in an affair.—Be¬ 
fore I engage myfelf in giving any anfwer to this objec¬ 
tion of inconfumptible rights, I would fee the effeSt cer¬ 
tainly averred. Digby: —To unite; to attach; to make 
adherent.—Good-nature engages every body to him. Ad- 
dijon. —To induce ; to win by pleafing means; to gain : 
To ev’ry duty he could minds engage. 
Provoke their courage, and command their rage. Waller. 
So fhall I court thy deareft truth, 
When beauty ceafes to engage! 
So thinking on thy charming youth, 
I’ll love it o’er again in age. Prior. 
To bind by any appointment or contradl.—We have been 
firm to our allies, without declining any expence to which 
we had engaged ourfelves, and we have even exceeded 
our engagement. Atterbury. —To feize by the attention : 
as, He was deeply engaged in converfation. To employ; 
to hold in bufinefs : 
For I (hall fing of battles, blood, and rage, 
Which princes and their people did engage. Drydcn. 
To encounter; to fight: 
The rebel knave, who dares his prince engage, 
Proves the juft viiftim cif his royal rage. Pope. 
To ENGA'GE, v. n. To conflict; to fight.-—Upon ad- 
vertifement of the Scots army, the earl of Holland was 
fent with a body to meet and engage with it. Clarendon. — 
To embark in any bufinefs; to enlift in any party : 
’Tis not indeed my talent to engage 
In lofty trifles, or to fvvell my rage 
With wind and noife. . Dryden. 
ENGA'GEMENT, f. [from engage ; engagement , Fr.] 
The aft of engaging, imparting, or making liable to, a 
debt. Obligation by contrail.—We have, in expence, 
exceeded our engagements. Atterbury .—Adherence to a par¬ 
ty or caufe ; partiality.—This practice may be obvious to 
any who impartially, and without engagement, is at the 
pains to examine. Swift .—Employment of the attention. 
■—Play, either by our too conftant or too long engagement 
in it, becomes like an employment orprofeflion. Rogers. — 
Fight; confliSt; battle: 
Our army, led by valiant Torrifmond, 
Is now iifhot engagement with the Moors, Dryden, 
ENG bn 
Obligation; motive.—This is the greateft engagement not 
to forfeit an opportunity. Hammond. 
ENGAN'HO, or Enganno, one of the Malayan ides, 
in the eaftern Sea ; a little diftant from the fouth-weft Coaft 
of the ifland of Sumatra, and about ninety miles fouth of 
fort Marlborough. It was fcarcely known to have been 
inhabited, by reafon of the inaceeflible rocks, and dread¬ 
ful-breakers, until Commodore Beaulieu vilited it, who 
calls it L.'IJle Trompeufe, and adds, that the natives murder 
all that come on Jhore. Mr. Charles Miller, however, found 
this account greatly exaggerated. He went on fhore from 
our fliips of difeovery, and fays “ the men were from five 
feet eight to five feet ten inches high, of a reddish colour, 
with black ftra.it hair cut ftiort; that of the women long, 
and rolled into a neat curl on the top of the head. The 
men went quite naked ; the women had no more than a 
plantain leaf to hide their nakednefs ; the arms of the men 
were lances headed with the bone of filh, their canoes 
made of two boards fetved together, and the feam filled 
with pitch. Their houfes were circular, fupported on 
flakes of iron-wood; they had no fort of fowl, cattle,.or 
rice; they lived on cocoa nuts, fugar canes, and fweet 
potatoes, orfifh dried in the fmoke. The fifli they caught 
with their lances, or in nets very neatly manufactured by 
themfelves. Their behaviour was hofpitable, nor did 
they give any fort of umbrage, till fome imprudent con- 
duC on our fide excited an alarm. Conch fhells, the 
murex tritonis, refounded in all parts of the ifland, and 
our people thought fit to make a fudden retreat.” 
fo ENGA'OL, u.a. Toimprifon; to confine : 
Within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue, 
Doubly portcullis’d with fiiy teeth and lips. Shakefpeare. 
To ENGAR'RISON, v. a. To proteft by a garrifon.— 
Neptune with a guard doth engarrijon her ftrongly. Hou/el. 
ENG ASTRIMU'THI,yi [from ev, in, yur-eg, the belly, 
and jjrjQtojJMi, Gr. to difeourfe.] In pagan theology, the 
Pythians, or priefieffes of Apollo, who delivered oracles 
from within, like ventriloquifts, without any aftion of the 
mouth or lips. Ancient philofophers are divided upon 
the fubject of the engaftrimuthi. Hippocrates mentions 
it as a difeafe : others as a kind of divination : others at¬ 
tribute it to the operation or pofleffion of an evil fpirit: 
and others to art and mechanifm. Scottus maintains that 
the engaftrimuthi of the ancients were poets, who, when 
the priefts could not fpeak, fupplied the defeat by ex¬ 
plaining in verfe what Apollo didfated in the cavity of 
the bafon of the facred tripod. 
EN'GELACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and bifttopric of Flildefheim : fifteen miles 
fouth-weft of Alfeld. 
EN'GELBERG, an abbey of Swiflerland, in the can¬ 
ton of Underwald, in a valley furrounded with lofty 
mountains. The cantons of Uri, Schwitz, and Unter- 
vvald are its protestors : five mileseaft-fouth-eaft of Saxlen. . 
EN'GELBERT, [Sax.] A man’s name. 
EN'GELBRECHTS, a town of Germany, in the arch- - 
duchy of Auftria: five miles north-north-weft of Bava¬ 
rian Waldhoven. 
ENGELHART'ZEL, a town of Germany, in the 
archduchy of Auftria : nine miles eaft of Paflau. 
EN'GELHAUS, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Saatz : two miles' eaft-fouth-eaft of Carlfttad. 
EN'GELHOLM, a fea-port town of Sweden, on the * 
eaft fide of the Categat, in a confiderable bay, with good 
anchorage: thirty-fix miles north of Lund, and forty-five 
weft of Chriftianftadt. In 1678 it was taken by the Danes, 
after an obftinate defence, in which the city was reduced 
alntoft to a heap of r,uins.. Lat.56.i3.N. Ion. 12.49. E. 
Greenwich. 
EN'GELSBERG, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Appau : five miles north-north-weft of Freudenthal. 
EN'GELSBURG, a town, of Pruflia, in the territory 
of Culm : twelve miles north-eaft of Culm. 
• EN'GELSDORF, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of. 
Bolefiaw : ten miles north-north-eaft of Krottau. 
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