[f. ENROL v. + -MENT.] The action of enrolling.
1. The action of enrolling soldiers, citizens, etc.; the process of being enrolled.
1552. Huloet, Enrolemente or engrosement, conscriptio, Perscriptio.
1581. Savile, Tacitus’ Hist., Annot. (1591), 51. The number of souldiers in a Legion … at the first enrolment.
1619. Sclater, Exp. 1 Thess. (1630), 442. Enrolement in the number of the predestinate.
1640–4. Parl. Orders, in Rushw., Hist. Coll., III. (1692), I. 744. Their first Inrollment of any such Horse and Horse-men.
1810. Wellington, in Gurw., Disp., V. 480. The enrolment, organization and equipment of this large force.
1845. R. W. Hamilton, Pop. Educ., iv. (ed. 2), 83. Many may need that education who are not of that religious enrolment.
1885. Act 48 Vict., c. 15 Sched. iii. Precept. § 8. Premises … which would qualify him for enrolment as a burgess.
2. The action of recording in official archives; esp. the registering a deed, judgment, recognizance, acknowledgement, etc., in a court of record.
1535. Act 27 Hen. VIII., c. 27. Which regester of enrollementes, shall remaine and be safelie kepte in the said courte.
a. 1626. Bacon, Max. & Uses Com. Law (1636), 55. This needeth no inrollment as a bargaine and sale doth.
1641. Termes de la Ley, 190. Inrolment is the registring, recording, or entring of any act or deed in the Chancery or else-where.
1818. Cruise, Digest, IV. 131. All conveyances or incumbrances … prior to the enrolment, are … void.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., III. xviii. 262. To view the enrolment and engrossing of the acts of parliament.
b. concr. The entry or official record of a deed, etc.; a record in general.
1603. Eng. Mourn. Garment, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), II. 506. In no inrollment such a king is found.
1607–13. Davies, Hist. Tracts Irel. (1787), 36 (J.). The King … delivered the enrollments with his own hands to the Bishop of Salisbury.
16[?]. Dryden’s Patent, in Prose Wks. (1800), I. App. 558 (R.). These presents, or the inrolment thereof shall be … a sufficient warrant.
3. Honorable celebration.
1602. Metamorph. Tabacco (Collier), p. viii. [It] merits enroulement with Mœonian quill.
