Litigiousness: alternatives and connections

To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.

To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.

To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.

To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract…

To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.

A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.

A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking…

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.

To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.

To search thoroughly; to engage in solicitation by traversing a district; as, to canvass for subscriptions or for votes; to canvass fo…

To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account…

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter…

To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.

The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchar…

To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.