[f. the sb. Cf. F. cataloguer.]
1. trans. To make a catalogue or list of; to enumerate in catalogue form.
1598. Chapman, Iliad, II. Argt.
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a. 1612. Sir J. Harington, Brief View Ch. (1653), 80 (T.). He … so cancell’d or catalog’d and scattered our Books.
1705. Prowse, in Hearne, Collect. (1885), I. 10. I am … busie in Catalogueing his Books.
1863. Miss Braddon, Eleanor’s Vict., I. i. 3. I would rather not catalogue her other features too minutely.
1884. Law Times, 3 May, 11/1. [He] had begun to lot and catalogue the furniture.
1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 15 Jan., 6/2. While engaged in cataloguing a library.
2. To inscribe or insert in a catalogue. Also fig.
1635. Heywood, Lond. Sinus Sal., Wks. 1874, IV. 297–8. Amongst Schollars (In which number I may Catalogue your Lordship).
1762–71. H. Walpole, Anecd. Paint., III. i. (R.). If religion is thrown into the quarrel, the most innocent acts are catalogued with sins.
1870. Miss Bridgman, R. Lynne, II. iii. 64. He had catalogues Dicky Blake as a fool.
1886. Law Times, LXXX. 165/1. The book … was catalogued under the author’s name only.
3. absol.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., IX. xliv. (1612), 212. And here occasion apteth that we catalogue a while.
Hence Catalogued ppl. a., Cataloguing vbl. sb.
1795. Burke, Regic. Peace, iv. Wks. IX. 102. Their studied, deliberated, catalogued files of murders.
1830. Herschel, Stud. Nat. Phil., 79. Mineralogy ceased to be … a mere laborious cataloguing of stones and rubbish.
