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or on rolls of 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…

One who enrolls or registers.

The act of enrolling; registration. Holland.

To erase from a roll or list. [Written also disenrol.] Donne.

scription prevails a soldier is supposed to serve a given number of years. He is usually enrolled first in the regular army, then passes to its reserve, then into the home reserves, to serve until he reaches the age limit. It for any reason he is not enrolled in the regular army, he may begin his service in the army r…

that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser.

To enroll; to enlist. [Obs.] E. Hall.

Enrolled; written; registered. Conscript fathers (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the "fathers" the body was called Patres et Conscripti; afterward all were called Patres conscripti.

An enrolling or registering. The conscription of men of war. Bp. Burnet.

To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.

To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Cæsar was deified.

To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.

To register; to enroll or record; to inregister. To read enregistered in every nook His goodness, which His beauty doth declare. Spenser.

To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.

To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. Blackstone.

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To classify or enroll as an invalid. Peace coming, he was invalided on half pay. Carlyle.

To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc. Augustine . . . inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them. Fuller.

To enroll; to place or register in a list. Listed among the upper serving men. Milton.