0 a promise -- slib
He gave me his pledge.
1 something given by a person who is borrowing money etc to the person he has borrowed it from, to be kept until the money etc is returned -- zástava
3 to promise -- slíbit
He pledged his support.
4 to give to someone when borrowing money etc -- dát do zástavy
She pledged her watch.
Aldermen, vestrymen and the governors of guilds solemnly pledged not to scatter ' secret ' matters abroad.
It is not surprising, therefore, that princes sometimes found themselves presiding over the complete alienation of pledge objects from their domain.
The king's second effort was a pledge that he would not use his powers of imprisonment in future against those who refused requests for loans.
And whereas they had no town as their allodial property, and only two as fiefs, they held twenty-one towns or fractions in pledge.
The answer to this may be that the president is in fact making a different pledge and using a code to maintain diplomatic niceties.
We pledge ourselves that the records shall be as correct as human ability can make them.
Given this definition, we see that the electroacoustic community has already pledged allegiance to transcendence.
He released some of them to bring in the relatives of the rest on the pledge that they all would be set at liberty.
