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Webster 1913 Edition


Enroll

En-roll′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Enrolled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Enrolling
.]
[Pref.
en-
+
roll
: cf. F.
enrôler
; pref.
en-
(L.
in
) +
rôle
roll or register. See
Roll
,
Noun.
]
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Enroll

ENROLL

, v.t.
1.
To write in a roll or register; to insert a name or enter in a list or catalogue; as, men are enrolled for service.
2.
To record; to insert in records; to leave in writing.
3.
To wrap; to involve.