单词 | register office |
释义 | register officen. 1. An office where registration is made, or at which a register of any kind is kept. Cf. registry office n. 1.spec. a place where a register of positions in domestic employment is maintained (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept registery1483 chancery1523 registry1531 cartuary1539 Register House1540 cartulary?1541 arches1626 register office1641 archive1645 record office1647 tabulary1656 registry office1720 registrature1762 dufter1791 records department1825 PRO1892 morgue1914 1641 J. Etherington Def. Iohn Etherington 15 I did according to the order, give into the Register Office full answers upon oath to all Steven Denisons Articles, which are to be seen. 1668 D. Lloyd Memoires 442 (note) Which Protestation and chief Attestations, are entred into the Archbishops of Canterburys Register Office, as a lasting Testimony of the truth therein asserted. 1681 E. Everard Pressures & Grievances Protestants France i. 9 Suffer the said Officers to report the Act of the said Summons,..and cause the same to be Registred in the Register-Office of their said Jurisdiction. 1699 G. Byrne Several Instances Wrongs & Oppress. Sailers sig. A2v The Nation in the utmost Exigency cannot rely upon the Register-Office for Two thousand able Seamen of the 30000 which was expected in six Months time. 1753 Aris's Gaz. (Birmingham) 24 Sept. At the Universal Register Office in the Strand, London,..are entered Persons who are in any Respect capable of being serviceable to others,..viz. Curates, Tutors,..Servants of both Sexes and of all Degrees. 1760 S. Foote Minor i. 44 I have advertis'd this morning, in the register-office, for servants under seventeen. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. i My drawing-room is an absolute register-office for candidate actors, and poets without character. 1810 R. Walsh Genius & Dispos. Fr. Gov. (ed. 3) 108 The duties on registration, and particularly those on law proceedings, have produced the effects which might..have been expected. Register offices abound in every part of the empire, and the courts of justice..have multiplied judicial acts to a most pernicious extent. 1835 Act 5 & 6 William IV c. 19 §19 There shall be established in the Port of London an office to be called ‘The General Register Office of Merchant Seamen’. 1864 Times 29 June 13/1 They..asked for power to close the register-office at Calcutta, as the expectations in respect of it had not been realized. 1906 J. A. Ford & A. A. C. Finlay Handbk. of Jamaica 1906 v. 218 Any person may within one month..give notice at the Register Office of opposition to the registration of the trade mark. 1914 Southwestern Reporter 161 241/1 All that remained to be done was for the conductor and engineer to register out. Before starting, the train was several yards south of the register office. 1992 E. Hennessy Domest. Hist. Bank of Eng. ii. 80 One milestone of historical interest during these years was the combination, from 1 July 1955, of the Power of Attorney Office with the Register Office. 2. spec. (chiefly British). A local government office at which births, marriages, and deaths are recorded, civil marriages conducted, and (more recently) citizenship ceremonies held, with certificates issued according to legal requirements; = registry office n. 2.Local register offices were created for England and Wales in 1837 upon the establishment of the national General Register Office, with similar offices subsequently established for Scotland (1855) and Ireland (1863).The form register office is the official term, although registry office is used frequently in informal and non-official use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept > of births, marriages and deaths register office1836 registry office1836 1836 Times 13 Oct. 3/3 The register office must be a place where persons may ‘contract and solemnize marriage’. 1852 S. Redgrave Murray's Official Handbk. Church & State vi. 271 Under the provisions of the Act of 1836, districts have been formed, register-offices established, and registrars and superintendent-registrars appointed. 1880 Law Times Rep. 11 Sept. p. xviii./2 The Registrar may..require any of the persons required by this Act to give information concerning the birth to attend personally at the register office within such time..as may be specified in the notice. 1913 Trans. 15th Internat. Congr. Hygiene & Demogr. I. 411 The General Register Office..undertakes the collection of statistics of England and Wales in respect of births, marriages, and deaths... Separate register offices..deal with the statistics of Scotland and Ireland, respectively. 1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk iii. 121 We'd meant to be married very quietly In a register office. 1999 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 30 Apr. 9 For the first time this year, Stroud people will be able to vote in the elections at the town's register office. 2008 Cornishman (Nexis) 21 Aug. 20 Scilly recently had its first ever citizenship ceremony..at the Porthcressa register office. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1641 |
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