Definition of "enroll"

enroll

/ɪnˈɹəʊl/

verb
third-person singular simple present enrolls, present participle enrolling, simple past and past participle enrolled
1. (transitive) To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
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  All the citizens capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
  1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company
  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.
  1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […]
2. (transitive) To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of
3. (intransitive) To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)
4. (obsolete, transitive) To envelop; to enwrap.
  Quotations
  Our quiuering Lances ſhaking in the aire,And bullets like Ioues dreadfull Thunderbolts,Enrolde in flames and fiery ſmoldering miſtes,Shall threat the Gods more than Cyclopian warres, […]
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act II, scene iii
  enroll thy memorable name In th’ heart of every honourable dame
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

Definition of "enroll"

enroll

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