Hypertext Webster Gateway: "enroll"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Enroll \En*roll"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enrolled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Enrolling}.] [Pref. en- + roll: cf. F. enr[^o]ler; pref.
en- (L. in) + r[^o]le roll or register. See {Roll}, n.]
[Written also {enrol}.]
1. To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or
catalogue 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
enrolling. --Milton.
All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled
themselves. --Prescott.
2. To envelop; to inwrap; to involve. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
enroll
v : register formally; as a participant or member [syn: {inscribe},
{enter}, {enrol}, {recruit}]
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