Pete Daoust
TO WAGE, contracts. To give a pledge or security for the performance of anything; as to wage or gage deliverance; to wage law, &c. Co. Litt. 294. This word is but little used.
verb
carry on (a war or campaign).
"it is necessary to destroy their capacity to wage war" synonymes: engage in, carry on, conduct, execute, pursue, prosecute, proceed with
That's all I could find, and there's nothing I can find that would make sense in French....