Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To register; enroll or record.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To register; to enroll or record; to inregister.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To record on a register.

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Examples

  • At the most, only studies in colors were made out of doors -- unrelated portions of pictures, stained rather than painted, with timid desire to enregister details.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 Various

  • Long would be the litany were I to enregister all the fraud and treachery which they committed, either to augment their fortunes or to win the favour of the chief who wished to have kings for his subjects.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • In studying the behaviour of animals, which is the only way of getting at their mind, for it is only of our own mind that we have direct knowledge, it is essential to give prominence to the fact that there has been throughout the evolution of living creatures a strong tendency to enregister or engrain capacities of doing things effectively.

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • With words, also, it became easier to enregister outside himself the gains of the past.

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • The evolutionary method, if we may use the expression, has been to enregister ready-made responses; and as we ascend the animal kingdom, we find reflex actions becoming complicated and often linked together, so that the occurrence of one pulls the trigger of another, and so on in a chain.

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • Saint-Simon and Dangeau say nothing more about her, save to enregister the meagre favours which the

    Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

  • When the Parliament of Paris remonstrated, or refused to enregister an edict, or when it summoned a functionary accused of malversation to its bar, its political influence as a judicial body was clearly visible; but nothing of the kind is to be seen in the United States.

    democracy in America, volume 1 1838

  • Long would be the litany were I to enregister all the fraud and treachery which they committed, either to augment their fortunes or to win the favour of the chief who wished to have kings for his subjects.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • When the Parliament of Paris remonstrated, or refused to enregister an edict, or when it summoned a functionary accused of malversation to its bar, its political influence as a judicial body was clearly visible; but nothing of the kind is to be seen in the United States.

    American Institutions and Their Influence Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

  • When the Parliament of Paris remonstrated, or refused to enregister an edict, or when it summoned a functionary accused of malversation to its bar, its political influence as a judicial body was clearly visible; but nothing of the kind is to be seen in the United States.

    Democracy in America — Volume 1 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

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