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Encyclopedia Britannica



GAGE

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 386 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GAGE , a pledge, something deposited as security for the performance of an agreement, and liable to be forfeited on failure to carry it out. The word also appears in " engage," and is taken from the O. Fr., as are " wage,"
payment
  for services, and " wager," bet, stake, from the collateral O. Fr. waige. These two words are from the Low Lat. wadiare, vadiare, to pledge, vadiunz, classical Lat. vas, vadis, but may be from the old Teutonic cognate
base
  seen in
Gothic
 
wadi
 , a pledge (cf. Ger. wetten, to wager) ; this Teutonic
base
 ' is seen in Eng. " wed," to marry, i.e. to engage by a pledge (cf. Goth. gawadjon, to betrothe). A particular form of giving a " gage " or pledge was that of throwing down a
glove
  or
gauntlet
  as a challenge to a judicial combat, the
glove
  being the " pledge " that the parties would appear on the
field
 ; hence the common phrase " to throw down the gage of
defiance
  " for any challenge (see GLOVE and WAGER).


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