enrockment

[Pref. en; Eng. rock; and suff.-ment.] Stone pitched on to the sea-face of a breakwater or dyke, or a shore subject to encroachment by the waves or stream. ěn-ről, ěn-roll, v. t. [O. Fr. enroller; Fr. en rôler, from en =in, and rolle =a roll, list.] 1. To write down on a roll; to record, to register. "The conuencioun Of old engro ed, by great purueiaunce Which is enrolde , and put in remembraunce." Lydgate : Story of Thebes, pt. iii. 2. To write or enter in a roll or register; to enter names in a list. "There be enrolled among the king's forces about thirty you sand men of the Jews." -1 Maccabees x. 36. 3. To enter or include in a cla or list. "To be deemed considerable in this faculty, and enrolled among the wittes." -Barrow: Sermons, vol. i., ser. 14. *4. To involve, to wrap up, to encircle, to sur round. "All these, and you sand you sands many more Came rushing, in the foamy waves enrold." Spenser: F. Q. , II. xii. 25. Crabb thus discriminates between to enrol, to enlist, to register , and to record : " Eurol and enlist respect persons only; register respects persons and things; record respects things only. Enrol is generally applied to the act of inserting names in an orderly manner into any book; enlist is a species of enrolling applicable only to the military. The enrollment is an act of authority; the enlisting is the voluntary act of an individual. Among the Romans it was the office of the censor to enrol the the names of all the citizens in order to ascertain their number, and estimate their property: in mod ern times soldiers are mostly raised by means of enlisting. In the moral application of the terms, to enrol is to a ign a certain place or rank; to enlist is to put one's self under a leader, or attach one's self to a party. Hercules was enrolled among the gods; the common people are always ready to enlist on the side of anarchy and rebellion. To enrol and register both imply writing down in a book; but the former is a le formal act than the latter. The insertion of the bare name or designation in a certain order is enough to constitute an enrolment : but registering comprehends the birth, family, and other collateral circumstances of the individual. The object of registering likewise differs from that of enrolling ; what is registered serves for future purposes, and is of permanent utility to society in general; but what is enrolled often serves only a particular of temporary end. To record is a formal species of registering : we register when we record : but we do not always record when we register .... Things may be said to be registered in the memory, or events recorded in history." ( Crabb : Eng . Synon .)