That darksome cave they enter. --Spenser.
I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall
enter heaven, long absent. --Milton.
2. To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a
member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an
army.
3. To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the
legal profession, the book trade, etc.
4. To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to
commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new
dispensation.
5. To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put
in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a
knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a
boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
6. 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.
7. (Law)
(a) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual
possession of them.
(b) To place in regular form before the court, usually in
writing; to put upon record in proper from and order;
as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment.
--Burrill.
8. To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the
customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods),
with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the
customs for estimating the duties. See {Entry}, 4.
9. To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office
the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public
land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf
pre["e]mption. [U.S.] --Abbott.
10. To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a
book, picture, map, etc.); as, ``entered according to act
of Congress.''
11. To initiate; to introduce favorably. [Obs.] --Shak.
No evil thing approach nor enter in. --Milton.
Truth is fallen in the street, and equity can not
enter. --Is. lix. 14.
For we which have believed do enter into rest.
--Heb. iv. 3.
2. To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate;
to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or
participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into;
sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the
body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan;
to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into
partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land;
the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task;
lead enters into the composition of pewter.
3. To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with
into.
He is particularly pleased with . . . Sallust for
his entering into internal principles of action.
--Addison.