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Enrolled

Enroll \En*roll"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enrolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Enrolling.] [Pref. en- + roll: cf. F. enr[^o]ler; pref. en- (L. in) + r[^o]le roll or register. See Roll, n.]

  1. To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.

    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.
    --Milton.

    All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
    --Prescott.

  2. To envelop; to inwrap; to involve. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

Wiktionary
enrolled

vb. 1 (en-past of: enrol) 2 (en-past of: enroll)

WordNet
enrolled

adj. officially entered in a roll or list; "an enrolled student" [syn: listed]

enrol
  1. v. register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, inscribe, enter, recruit]

  2. [also: enrolling, enrolled]

enrolled

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Usage examples of "enrolled".

Their son, who was enrolled almost in his infancy in the guards, was given as a hostage, first to Alaric, and afterwards to the Huns.

He enrolled from amongst the principal men of the State twelve centuries.

They decided that help should be sent, the men of military age were enrolled, arms were distributed.

If the plebs made common cause with the senate, those who were bent on recovering their liberty would have men to lead them, and as the senators when summoned would not assemble, so the plebs must refuse to be enrolled for service.

When the legions were enrolled, the decemvirs arranged among themselves their respective commands.

The men of military age who in similar emergencies had made refusal to be enrolled their most effective weapon against the senate, began now to turn their thoughts to arms and war.

Were they to be allowed with impunity to stir up our neighbours to war by sowing the seeds of discord and then prevent the State from arming in its defence against those whom they had stirred up, and after all but summoning the enemy not allow armies to be enrolled against the enemy?

And I remembered the way in which my wife had been enrolled with the promise of colonel's rank and a real job behind a desk with people like Stinnes to do her bidding.

She'd been enrolled for only a month and a half when she left the dorm on a late October night, informing her roommate that she was heading to the library to study.

I have checked my records, and Lauren Teague was indeed enrolled in my class.

She's only enrolled in one business class this quarter, has a job at the Med Center in public relations.

This meant he was enrolled in five subjects with her altogether--a coincidence he perceived as being extraordinary.

For that reason perhaps, no other students appeared to be enrolled in more than two of these subjects.

Paul then thought of the probability of being enrolled in five courses with Patina.

Gavin doubted if he had ever been a student, although he might have enrolled briefly before dropping out.