entry, entre, entree

[Fr. entrée.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of entering or pa ing in; entrance, ingre . 1670 2. A formal, ceremonial, or official entrance into a city. "The day being come, he made his entry : he was a man of middle stature and age, and comely." -Bacon: Henry VII. 3. The pa age or way by which anything or place is entered; an entrance. "She saide at entre of the pas Howe Mars which god of armes was, Hath set two oxen sterne and stoute." Gower: C. A. , v. 4. The act of entering upon a subject in study or discu ion. "Attempts and entries upon religion." -Jer. Taylor. *5. A beginning. "Let their entre of the matter serve for an argument." -Bp. Gardiner: Explic. of Transubstantiation, fo. 94. 6. The act of inscribing, entering, or recording in a book, . enunciator