enroll
verbUK /ɪnˈɹəʊl/ · CA, US /ɛnˈɹoʊl/
Etymology From Middle English enrollen, from Anglo-Norman enroller; by surface analysis, en- + roll.
8 senses
- 1To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
- 2To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.
- 3To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of…
- 4To register as a member of an educational institution.
- 5To register for a class or course of study.
- 6To register to vote.
- 7To envelop; to enwrap.
- 8To curl up into a ball.
1
To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
- All the citizens capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
- 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.1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
2
To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.
- They were eager to enroll new recruits.
3
To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).
- Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
4
Education To register as a member of an educational institution.
6
Australia, New Zealand To register to vote.
7
Obsolete 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, […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
- enroll thy memorable name In th’ heart of every honourable dame1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
1 more example
- 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: […]1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 65:
- Many trilobites (e.g.37), including Ampyx priscus (Supplementary Fig. 11) had the capacity to enroll as do modern terrestrial isopods when threatened.2019 October 17, Jean Vannier et al., “Collective behaviour in 480-million-year-old trilobite arthropods from Morocco”, in Scientific Reports:
- Derived terms
- disenroll, enrollable, enrollee, enroller, enrollment, nonenrolled, overenrolled, reenroll, unenroll, unenrolled