v. rare in mod. use. Also 6 enregester, 6–7 inregister, 8 enrigister. [ad. Fr. enregistrer, f. en- (see EN- pref.1) + registre REGISTER sb.]
1. trans. To enter in a register or official record.
1579. Tomson, Calvin’s Serm. Tim., 525/2. He [God] hath not forgotten them [our sinnes], they are all inregistred before him.
1591. Horsey, Trav. (1857), App. 350. Enregistred by the agent in writing.
1612. W. Parkes, Curtaine-Dr. (1876), 9. Fixed a copious Scedule ore his head, Where all his mischiefes are inregistred.
1794. trans. Barruel’s Hist. Clergy during French Rev., III. 74. The business of his tribunal is to call the priests before him, enregister their names, and to be assured that they are executed.
1850. W. Irving, Mahomet, xiii. (1853), 60. The Syrian Greeks came in … to have their names enregistered in the book of tributaries.
b. transf. and fig.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. i. 1. That the honorable and noble aventures of feates of armes … shulde notably be inregistered.
1596. Spenser, Hymn Heav. Love, 130. As in a brasen booke, To read enregistred in every nooke His goodnesse.
1633. J. Done, Hist. Septuagint, 217. He hath himselfe written and inregistred his owne proper faults.
1831. Fraser’s Mag., III. 323/1. We now have the wild follies of those Alchemists, enregistered as warning to all posterity.
2. To put on record as law; to ratify and put on record.
1651. Life Father Sarpi (1676), p. lxxxviii. The Court … do their uttermost endeavour to enregister and authenticate the exclusion of Princes.
1702. Anguis in Herba, 31. He obliged himself to enrigister the Renunciation in the Council of State.
1819. Shelley, Cenci, II. i. 147. Executioners Of his decree enregistered in heaven.
1838–9. Hallam, Hist. Lit., III. III. vii. 364. Letters patent … which the Parliament of Paris enregistered with great reluctance.
Hence Enregistering vbl. sb.
1604. E. G., D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, IV. vi. 222. The first discovery and inregistring of the Mines of Potozi.
1791. Paine, Rights of Man (ed. 4), 100. The Parliament … ordered the enregistering to be struck out.
