enroll

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list

   • All the citizens capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
   • 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.
2. 2

   To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.

   • They were eager to enroll new recruits.
3. 3

   To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).

   • Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
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   1. 4

      To envelop

      To envelop; to enwrap.

      • Our quiuering Lances ſhaking in the aire, And bullets like Ioues dreadfull Thunderbolts, Enrolde in flames and fiery ſmoldering miſtes, Shall threat the Gods more than Cyclopian warres, […]
      • enroll thy memorable name In th’ heart of every honourable dame
      • So then were nothing lost to man; ⁠So that still garden of the souls ⁠In many a figured leaf enrolls The total world since life began: […]
   2. 5

      To curl up into a ball.

      • Many trilobites (e.g.37), including Ampyx priscus (Supplementary Fig. 11) had the capacity to enroll as do modern terrestrial isopods when threatened.

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