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o aggravate; as, to enhance crime. The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated. Southey.

To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.

court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist. An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling. Milt…

To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.

Admission into service; service. Some band of strangers in the adversary's entertainment. Shak.

te account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation. Enumerating the services he had done. Ludlow.

The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.

One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.

To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.…

rmy, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.

Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage. Blackstone.

s the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like. Cowell.

A speech or writing in commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth. Eulogies turn into elegies. Spenser.

A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service. Porson.

A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong. Wyclif. Milton.

An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept. [Enq.] Parker.

That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes. [Eng.]

not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service. True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak. T is laid on all, not any one exempt. Dryden.

unity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc.

Combat; war. [Obs.] He made haste to exploit some warlike service. Holland.