enrolmentn.
/ɛnˈrəʊlmənt/ The action of enrolling.
1. The action of enrolling soldiers, citizens, etc.; the process of being enrolled.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > [noun]
enrolling1467
raisec1500
conscription1529
prest1542
enrolment1552
listing1641
delectus1656
enlisting1757
enlistment1765
recruitment1793
crimping1795
sign-up1908
induction1934
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
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Enrolemente or engrosement, conscriptio, Perscriptio.
1591 H. Savile Annot. vpon Tacitus 51 in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. The number of souldiers in a Legion..at the first enrolment.
1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 442 Enrolement in the number of the predestinate.
1640–4 Parl. Orders in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 744 Their first Inrollment of any such Horse and Horse-men.
1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) V. 480 The enrolment, organization and equipment of this large force.
1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. iv. 83 Many may need that education who are not of that religious enrolment.
1885 Act 48 Vict. c. 15 Sched. iii. Precept. §8 Premises..which would qualify him for enrolment as a burgess.
2.
a. The action of recording in official archives; esp. the registering a deed, judgement, recognizance, acknowledgement, etc. in a court of record.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > official record > recording in
rolment1410
enrolment1535
enrolling1712
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 27 Which regester of enrollementes, shall remaine and be safelie kepte in the said courte.
1629 Vse of Law 69 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light This needeth no Enrollment as a Bargaine and Sale doth.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 190 Inrolment is the registring, recording, or entring of any act or deed in the Chancery or else-where.
1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. IV. 182 All incumbrances and mesne conveyances made by the bargainor between the date or delivery, and the inrolement, are void.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 262 To view the enrolment and engrossing of the acts of parliament.
b. concrete. The entry or official record of a deed, etc.; a record in general.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > official record
libel1297
lettersc1300
rolla1325
billc1374
sealc1380
Parliament Roll1444
enrolment1603
1603 Eng. Mourning Garment in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 506 In no inrollment such a king is found.
1612 J. Davies Discov. Causes Ireland (1988) 95 The king..delivered the enrolments, with his own hands, to the bishop of Salisbury.
1670 Dryden's Patent in J. Dryden Wks. (1808) XVIII. App. 189 These presents, or the inrolment thereof, shall be..a sufficient warrant.
3. Honourable celebration.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > honour > [noun] > conferring of honour > honourable celebration
enrolment1602
1602 I. P. in J. Beaumont Metamorph. Tabacco sig. A4v [It] merits enroulement with Mæonian quill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
n.1535