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Meaning of ENROLL

Pronunciation:  en'rowl

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [v]  register formally; as a participant or member
 
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 Synonyms: enrol, enter, inscribe, recruit
 
 See Also: draft, enlist, matriculate, muster in, register, unionise, unionize

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
 
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