enregisterv.
/ɛnˈrɛdʒɪstə/ 1.
a. transitive. To enter in a register or official record. (In modern use as a gallicism.)
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1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 525/2 Our sinnes..he [God] hath not forgotten..they are all inregistred before him.
1589 J. Horsey Negotiations in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 84 Enregistred by the Agent in Writing.
1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-drawer To Rdr. sig. A4v Fixed a copious Scedule ore his head, Where all his mischiefes are inregestred.
1794 tr. A. Barruel Hist. Clergy during French Revol. iii. 74 Enregister their names.
1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) xiii. 60 The Syrian Greeks came in..to have their names enregistered in the book of tributaries.
1918 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Mar. 137/2 The three hundred thousand enregistered by the barrister Chenaux.
b. transferred and figurative.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (transitive)]
book?c1225
descrivec1325
registera1393
rollc1440
describea1475
regestc1475
act1492
enregister1523
registrate1570
to book up1577
matriculate1586
imbook1587
muster1587
immatriculate1602
imbreviate1609
re-register1807
to check in or out1918
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. i. 1 That the honorable and noble aventures of feates of armes..shulde notably be inregistered.
1596 E. Spenser Hymne Heauenly Loue in Fowre Hymnes 130 As in a brasen booke, To read enregistred in every nooke His goodnesse.
1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint sig. O7 He hath himselfe written and inregistred his owne proper faults.
1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 323 We now have the wild follies of those Alchemists enregistered as a warning.
1896 McClure's Mag. 6 479/2 The works of men too numerous to be enregistered here.
1928 New Statesman 27 Oct. 81 The young spiders..are obeying what is nowadays a racially enregistered tropism to climb.
2. To put on record as law; to ratify and put on record. Now rare.
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society > law > legislation > make (laws) or establish as law [verb (transitive)] > ratify
enregister1651
1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. N4v The Court..doe their uttermost endeavour to enregister and authenticate the exclusion of Princes.
1702 H. Maxwell Anguis in Herba 31 He obliged himself to enrigister the Renunciation in the Council of State.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci ii. i. 27 Executioners Of his decree enregistered in heaven.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vii. 644 Letters patent..which the parliament of Paris enregistered with great reluctance.
Derivatives
enˈregistering n.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > registration
descrivingc1325
descriptiona1425
descrying1440
brevementc1475
enrolment1552
register1563
registration?1566
booking1583
matriculating1585
registry1589
inrotulation1590
counterrolment1598
enregistering1604
taxation1686
re-registration1836
preregistration1928
society > law > legislation > [noun] > ratification
ratification1420
enregistering1791
enregistry1825
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. vi. 222 The first discovery and inregistring of the Mines of Potozi.
1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 95 The Parliament..ordered the enregistering to be struck out.
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