registrarn.
/ˌrɛdʒᵻˈstrɑː/, /ˈrɛdʒᵻstrɑː/, U.S. /ˈrɛdʒəˌstrɑr/ I. Senses relating to register n.1 I.
1.
a. A person responsible for keeping a register or record; an official recorder.
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > registrar
registrerc1400
registera1443
registerera1475
regestera1500
regestary1523
registrar1571
enroller1631
registrator1827
1571 E. Grindal Articles §62. sig. Cij, in Iniunctions Prouince of Yorke Whether the Archdeacon, Chauncelor,..their Registrares or Actuaries..haue at any time..suffered anye adulteries, fornications, incestes, or other faultes and offences, to passe and remaine vnpunished.
1636 M. Wren Articles Diocese of Norwich ix. sig. Cv Are there placed by the Registrar, two Tables containing the seuerall rates and summes of all fees due to the Iudge, and other officers of your Courts.
1675 R. Bathurst in T. Warton Life (1761) 136 The patent was sealed and delivered, and the person admitted, sworne before the public registrar.
1728 P. F. le Courayer Def. Diss. Validity Eng. Ordinations I. iii. vi. 416 These were the Writings of several different People in this Register, as doubtless there were several Registrars and several Clerks.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxvii. 451 The minutes of it are taken down, and read openly in court by the registrar.
1812 Act 52 Geo. III c. 146 §7 The Registrar of every Diocese in England.
1835 Act 5 & 6 William IV c. 19 §21 A due Return should be made to the said Registrar of Merchant Seamen.
1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God iii. 57 Every great historian should be no dull registrar of events.
1900 Congress. Rec. 31 Jan. 1367/1 The registrar may require every applicant for registration to prove his age.
1983 K. M. MacMorran & K. J. T. Elphinstone Handbk. for Churchwardens & Parochial Church Councillors iii. 34 All such proceedings commence with a complaint laid before the registrar of the diocese.
1997 Proposed Demerger of Centrica (Brit. Gas) 30 The statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 1995..have been filed with the registrar of companies.
b. registrar general n. a senior official responsible for the control and safe keeping of records; spec. (chiefly British and in some Commonwealth countries) a state officer at the head of the national system under which all births, marriages, and deaths are registered and recorded, and censuses taken. See general adj. 8a.
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > official in charge of records > of registers
registrar general1790
1790 Ann. Reg. 1788 i. Hist. Europe 160/1 Gunga Govind Sing, whose son was registrar-general of the province, and had in his custody the documents upon which the legal merits of the cause might depend.
1829 Times 20 Apr. 3/4 T. E. Willoughby, Registrar-General.
1836 Act 6 & 7 William IV c. 86 §6 The Registrar General shall send..a General Abstract of the Numbers of Births, Deaths, and Marriages.
1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 306 A general register and record office of seamen in the mercantile marine, under the direction of a registrar-general.
1908 Canad. Practitioner & Rev. June 398 The Registrar-General, upon proper presentation of the facts, may appoint sub-registrars for the purpose of issuing certificates of registration of death.
1921 Times 3 Feb. 7/2 The Registrar-General's returns for the week..show that there were 21 cases of sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica) notified..in London alone.
1955 G. Gorer Exploring Eng. Char. i. 9 It was..decided..that the remainder of the questionnaires..should be selected in random fashion in proportion to the total numbers of the groups in the English population, as these had been calculated by the registrar-general.
1991 D. M. Greenwood Unholy Ghosts (BNC) 141 The Army List told him the father was dead, the Registrar General that his wife was.
c. British. (The title of) a local official responsible for maintaining an index of births, marriages, and deaths, and more recently for conducting marriages and civil partnerships, in the area under his or her authority.
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > registrar > of births, marriages, and deaths
collector1704
registrar1876
1834 Times 15 May 3/3 The collector of taxes in every parish is to be the registrar of births and deaths.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xi. 106 There were the Inquests and the Registrar's returns.
1876 C. M. Yonge Three Brides II. xiii. 242 They put up their banns at the Union at Brighton, and were married by the Registrar.
1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children II. xxvii. 325 None of your private chaplains... Just the registrar, if there is nothing better.
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. i. xxv. 218 Let us be married honestly by a registrar.
1911 Times 21 Mar. 9/2 There is not, and never was, a registrar of deaths at Alfredton.
1967 Guardian 1 Aug. 4/3 The shot-gun marriages tend to take place in the registrar's office under the mistaken impression that the church does not marry pregnant brides.
2007 S. Harris-Short & J. Miles Family Law ii. 112 Civil partnerships cannot be formed in religious premises, nor may any religious service be used while the registrar is officiating at the signing of the civil partnership.
2. In certain universities: (the title of) a senior officer with administrative responsibility.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > registrar
registraryc1541
registrar1706
1706 Whereas Divers Persons do illegally practice Physick (Royal Coll. of Physicians) (single sheet) We, the President and Censors of the said College..do hereby give Notice, That [etc.].. And hereof all Members are requir'd to take Notice. Edward Browne, President... Joh. Bateman, Registrar.
1756 Reply to Dr. Huddesford's Observations relating to Delegates of Press 4 A Convocation being appointed to be held in the Theater on the second of July, the Vice-Chancellor gave directions to the Registrar to prepare the forms of nomination.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 54/2 Registrar, an officer in the English universities, who has the keeping of all the public records.
1813 Niles' Reg. 5 80/1 John W. Francis, M.D. Registrar.
1870 D. P. Chase Registrarship of Univ. 5 The Registrar has been relieved of a great amount of labour connected with the University accounts.
1900 Statuta et Decreta Universitatis Oxoniensis 283 The Registrar of the University shall be elected in Convocation.
1943 ‘B. Truscot’ Redbrick Univ. iii. 59 The whole of the University [of Bristol] Council, the Deans of Faculties, the Professors and Professores Emeriti, the Librarian, the Registrar, [etc.].
1993 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Aug. a13 The registrar of the University of California at Berkeley has been dismissed after an audit found spending improprieties.
2004 F. M. G. Willson Univ. of London, 1858–1900 i. iv. 39 The Registrar was the only senior, full-time, salaried, officer of the University until 1870, when he was joined by an Assistant Registrar and Librarian.
3. Originally: a junior doctor whose duties included the maintenance of a register of patients. Now usually: a middle-ranking hospital doctor undergoing training as a specialist or consultant.The term is used in the United Kingdom and certain Commonwealth countries: resident (resident n.1 3) is the equivalent term in the United States.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > hospital or clinic physician > senior hospital level
registrar1836
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > hospital or clinic physician > junior hospital level
intern1827
registrar1836
internist1848
house officer1867
houseman1924
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > hospital or clinic physician > senior hospital level > in training
registrar1836
1836 Times 8 Oct. 6/5 I can see no objection to the appointment of medical registrars.
1862 Med. Times & Gaz. 18 Oct. 411/2 Besides these there are a Resident Medical Officer, or Physician's Assistant..; a Medical and Surgical Registrar at a salary of £25 a year; two House Surgeons.
1894 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Nov. 1089/1 Rayner, Herbert E., F.R.C.S. Eng., appointed Surgical Registrar and Anæsthetist to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.
1937 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Sept. 470/2 Qualified students of the school can obtain appointments as house-physicians and house-surgeons, obstetric assistants, surgical, gynaecological, and medical registrars.
1961 Lancet 29 July 264/2 There would seem to be intra~professional divisions in which interests do not quite coincide—e.g., the unplaced registrars and the established consultants.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Aug. 879/2 In interviews with residents (in Britain, registrars) she found that they expressed strong preference for the middle-class patient.
2006 M. Breier & A. Wildschutt Doctors in Divided Soc. vi. 82 A doctor from India..came to South Africa in 2001 to do his surgical training... He came as a supernumary [sic] registrar, which means..he did not get paid.
4. Law (originally and chiefly British). In certain courts: an official with both administrative and judicial responsibilities.Although originally primarily responsible for ensuring the correct recording of judgments and orders (cf. sense 1a), registrars also had certain investigative and decision-making powers, and gradually their work became more judicial than administrative. In England and Wales, the Courts and Legal Services Act of 1990 renamed High Court and County Court registrars ‘District Judges’ to reflect this change.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > registrar or clerk
Justice Clerk1424
master1561
actuary1570
Lord Justice Clerka1572
registrar1851
1851 Jurist 14 144/2 The registrar decided that he had no jurisdiction to entertain the opposition to the petition.
1893 Law Times Rep. 68 444/1 On appeal to the County Court Judge..the decision of the registrar was upheld.
1912 Times 1 Mar. 4/1 The official receiver replied that he understood that the Registrar ruled against him.
1973 P. Rock Making People Pay vi. 144 In uncertainty, a registrar can ask bailiffs to report; he can threaten to seek corroboration of evidence from an employer; or he can demand tangible evidence.
2000 B. Cahill Thousandth Man iv. 61 The Supreme Court of Canada directed the registrar of the Court to conduct a hearing of the issue.
II. Senses relating to register n.1 II.† 5. Each of two or more wooden struts that keep the reservoir of an organ level as it rises and falls. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > register
register1585
slider1781
registrar1840
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 492/2 [Article Organ] A shows the reservoir;..DD, the registrars, by which the equal rising of the reservoir is ensured.
6. In a particular type of chronograph for timing the flight of a projectile: a rod that is released electromagnetically when the further of two targets is ruptured, thereby causing an indentation to be made in another rod. Cf. register n.1 11a. Now rare.The position of the indentation enables the time interval between the rupturing of the two targets to be inferred.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > in the physical sciences > measurement of > instrument > for measuring velocity of projectiles
ballistic pendulum1764
gun-pendulum1867
registrar1872
1872 Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engin. Mag. 7 223/1 The chronograph of Captain Le Boulengé can be used..directly as a velocimeter... The second current passes by another electro-magnet, whose armature, a shorter road, is called the registrar.
1918 H. A. Foster Electr. Engineer's Pocket-bk. (ed. 7) 1129 When the registrar is set free by the rupture of the second target, it strikes a horizontal plate.
Derivatives
ˌregiˈstrarship n. the position or office of registrar (in various contexts).
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > registrar > office of
registership1574
registry1648
registrarship1796
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > hospital or clinic physician > junior hospital level > position of
registrarship1796
internship1838
externship1905
1796 J. Warren Trial Bishop of Bangor 34 You said the Bishop made the bargain between you and Mr. Gunning, respecting the Registrarship?
1890 Dict. National Biogr. XXIII. 371/1 In 1824, on his resignation of the registrarship, the university granted him an annuity of 200l. per annum.
1937 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Sept. 467/2 In addition, the following appointments are open to all qualified students of the hospital:..two medical registrarships at £100 per annum.
2003 T. C. Barnard New Anat. of Irel. (2004) vi. 158 This work served as the youth's apprenticeship as an attorney. When the registrarship became vacant, there was a flurry of activity to secure it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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