Enrol
[ɪn'rəʊl;en-]
Definition
v.t. to insert in a roll or register: to enlist: to record: to leave in writing:—pr.p. enrōl′ling; pa.p. enrōlled′.—ns. Enrol′ler; Enrol′ment act of enrolling: that in which anything is enrolled: a register.
Edited by Lelia
Examples
- He will rob the citizens of their slaves; he will then set them free and enrol them in his body-guard. Plato. The Republic.
- H e himself wished to be enrolled in the National Guard, a nd had to be told that a half-paralyzed man co uld not render military service. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In addition to this, the new levies of troops that were being raised in the North-west went to Thomas as rapidly as enrolled and equipped. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Appius Claudius, one of the first of the censors to exercise it, enrolled freedmen in the tribes and called sons of freedmen to the Senate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gathered into the fold, With Thy people enrolled, With Thy people to live and to die! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Wilma