Verb

(ingag)

*{{quote-book, year=1897, author=Constance Fenimore Woolson, title=Stories by American Authors (Volume 4), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=--Answer was made, She wolde be muche bounden to me if I wolde maintaine y^e Rightes of my Familie, and lett all others from usinge of my propertie, when perceivinge Her to be of a livelie Witt, I went about to ingage her in converse, if onlie so I mighte looke into Her Eyes, wh. were of a coloure suche as I have never seene before, more like to a Pansie, or some such flower, than anything else I can compair with them. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1705, author=Lady Damaris Masham, title=Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian life, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Besides these two Motives, could I need any other to ingage me in the defence of Vertue, I should find yet a very powerful one in that dutiful Affection which I pay, and which every Subject ows to a GOOD PRINCE: ''Since the'' QUEEN, ''I am fully perswaded, would not so much rejoyce in the Accession of great Kingdoms to her Dominions, as to see the People, already happy in Her Government over them, indeavouring to make themselves and one another so, in following the great Example which She sets them of Vertue and Piety. }}

Verb

(involv)

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

* (John Milton)

Some of serpent kind involved / Their snaky folds.

To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

* (John Milton)

And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.

To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

* (John Locke)

Involved discourses.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.}}

To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

* (John Milton)

He knows / His end with mine involved .

* Tillotson

The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz

, title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}

To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

* (Alexander Pope)

The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng.

* (John Milton)

Earth with hell / To mingle and involve .

To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.

To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

Involved in a deep study.

(mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.