record 
event* ; to enlist soldiers, marines. To record a mortgage 
or deed ; to register a marriage. 
- II. intmns. If. To reflect; meditate; ponder. 
Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which 
he before had read. Fuller. 
2. To sing or repeat a tune : now only of birds. 
She had no sooner ended with the joining her sweet lips 
together but that he recorded to her music like rural poesy ; 
and with the conclusion of his song he embraced her. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
Sweet robin, linnet, thrush, 
Record from every bush. 
B. Jonson, The Penates. 
The young males [birds] continue practising, or, as the 
bird-catchers say, recording, for ten or eleven months. 
Darwin, Descent of Man, I. 53. 
record (rek'prd, formerly also re-kord'), . [< 
ME. record," recorde, < OF. record, recort, wit- 
ness, record, mention, = Pr. recort = Cat. record 
= Sp. recuerdo, remembrance, = It. ricordo, re- 
membrance, warning, instruction, < ML. recor- 
ilinn, witness, record, judgment ; from the verb : 
see record, ?.] 1. Attestation of a fact or 
event; testimony; witness. 
Purely Mr symple recorde 
Was founde as trewe as any bonde. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 934. 
Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true. 
John viii. 14. 
Heaven be the record to my speech ! 
Shale., filch. II., i. 1. 30. 
The record of a nameless woe 
In the dim eye's imploring stare. 
Whittier, The Human Sacrifice. 
2t. Memory; remembrance. 
Via. My father . . . died that day when Viola from her 
birth 
Had number'd thirteen years. 
Seb. O, that record is lively in my soul ! 
Shale., T. N., v. 1. 263. 
3. That which preserves remembrance or mem- 
ory; a memorial. 
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick flre shall burn 
The living record of your memory. Shak. , Sonnets, Iv. 
4. Something set down in writing or delineated 
for the purpose of preserving memory ; specif- 
ically, a register; an authentic or official copy of 
any writing, or an account of any facts and pro- 
ceedings, whether public or private, usually en- 
tered in a book for preservation ; also, the book 
containing such copy or account: as, the rec- 
ords of a court of justice ; the records of a town 
or parish; the records of a family, in law the 
term is often used, even without qualification, to designate 
the records of a family, a corporation, a priest or church, 
etc., but these, except when rendered public by law or le- 
gal sanction, are really private records. 
He commanded to bring the book of records of the chron- 
icles ; and they were read before the king. Esther vi. 1. 
Burn all the records of the realm 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 7. 16. 
Probably the very earliest record which we possess of 
any actual event is the scene depicted on a fragment of 
an antler, which was found in the rock shelter at Laugtrie 
Basse, in Auvergne. Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, I. 16. 
5. The aggregate of known facts in a person's 
life, especially in that of a public man ; person- 
al history: as, a good record; a candidate with 
a record. 
Because in America party loyalty and party organiza- 
tion have been hitherto so perfect that any one put for- 
ward by the party will get the full party vote if his char- 
acter is good and his record, as they call it, unstained. 
J. Bryce, American Commonwealth, I. 76. 
6. In racing, sports, etc., the best or highest 
recorded achievement of speed, distance, en- 
durance, or the like : as, to beat the record in 
leaping. 7t. Same as recorder, 4. [Rare.] 
Melodious instruments, as Lutes, Harpes, Regals, Records 
and such like. Puttenham, Arte or Eng. Poesie, p. 58. 
Assurances or conveyances toy record, those made or 
evidenced by the authority of a court of record, as a con- 
veyance by private act of Parliament or royal grant, or 
a fine and recovery. - Closing the record, in Scots law, 
the judicial declaration that the pleadings in a cause are 
at issue for trial. Contract Of record. See contract. 
Court of record. See court, 7. Debt of record, a debt 
which is shown by public record to exist. Estoppel by 
record. See estoppel. In record, on record, upon rec- 
ord, set down ; registered ; recorded. 
Mine were the very cipher of a function, 
To fine the faults whose fine stands in record, 
And let go by the actor. Shak., M. for M., ii. 2. 40. 
Convicted fools they are, madmen upon record. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 75. 
Judgment record. See judgment. Matter of record. 
See matter. Nisi prius record. See nisi prius. Pub- 
lic records, official entries of facts, transactions, or doc- 
uments, made by public officers pursuant to law, for the 
purpose of affording public notice or preserving a public 
memorial or continuing evidence thereof. More specifl- 
ivilly (a) In old Eng. law, authentic documents in official 
i 1 "]!.- "f parchment, particularly of judicial proceedings, 
and preserved in a court of record, (b) In modern use, 
the original process and pleadings in an action or suit, with 
the judgment and such other proceedings as are involved 
therein and required to be included by the law of the 
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forum, which are filed and registered as containing a per- 
manent memorial of the essential features of the adjudi- 
cation. To beat, break, or cut the record, in contests 
of speed, skill, endurance, etc. , to surpass any recorded ex- 
ploit in the line in question : as, to break the record for the 
running jump. [Colloq.] To discharge of record. See 
discharye. 'Co falsify a record, see falsify. Trial by 
record, a common-law mode of trial, had when a matter 
of record is pleaded and the opposite party pleads that 
there is no such record. The trial is by inspection of the 
record itself ; no other evidence is admissible. = Syn. 4. 
Note, chronicle, account, minute, memorandum. 
recordable ( re-kor'da-bl ), a. 1 . Capable of rec- 
ordation or being known as past. 2. Worthy 
of being recorded; deserving of record. 
Of very important, very recordable events, it was not 
more productive than such meetings usually are. 
Jane Austen, Emma, xxxviii. 
recordancet (rf-k&r'dans), n. [< OF. recor- 
dancc, remembrance, < recorder, remember: see 
record.'] Remembrance; recollection. Howell, 
Letters. 
recordari facias loquelam (rek-6r-da'ri fa'shi- 
as lo-kwe'lam). [So called from these words 
in th'e writ, in the L. (ML.) form, lit. 'cause the 
complaint to be recorded': L. recordari, pass, of 
recordnre, usually deponent recordari, remem- 
ber, ML. also recite, record; facias, 2d pers. 
sing. pres. subj. (in impv. use) of facere, make, 
cause; loquelam, ace. of loquela, complaint.] 
In law, an old writ directed to the sheriff to 
make a record of the proceedings of a cause 
depending in an inferior court, and remove the 
same to the King's (Queen's) Bench or Common 
Pleas. 
recordation (rek-or-da'shon), . [Early mod. 
E. recordacion; < OF. recordation, recordacion, 
F. recordation = Pr. recordacio = Sp. recorda- 
cion = Pg. recordacao = It. ricordazione, < L. 
recordatio(n-), recalling to mind, recollection, 
remembrance, < recordari, remember: see rec- 
ord.'} If. Recollection; remembrance. 
For suche as be in sorowe, care, or peyne can not sleape 
soundely, for the often recordacion of theyr euils. 
Udall, Flowers, fol. 138. 
To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes, 
That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven, 
For recordation to my noble husband. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 3. 61. 
Sinfull man, whose very heart should bleed 
With recordation of soe straunge a deed. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 68. 
2. The act of recording; also, a record; a re- 
gister. 
I think that the wittes of many readers haue diuerted 
from the weyght of great affaires, to the recordation of 
such pleasaunt thynges. 
Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, ed. 
[Arber, p. 200). 
Ulyss. Why stay we, then ? 
Tro. To make a recordation to my soul 
Of every syllable that here was spoke. 
Shak., T. and C., v. 2. 116. 
Papers pertaining to the probate and recordation of 
wills. Code of Virginia, 1873, civ. 7. 
recorder (re-k6r'der), n. [< ME. recorder, a 
pipe, "recor'dour, recordowre, a witness, < OF. 
recordeor, recordeour, recordeur, one who re- 
cords or narrates, a witness, a judge, a min- 
strel, = Sp. recordador, recorder, = It. ricor- 
dalore, remembrancer, < ML. recordator, a re- 
corder, < L. recordari, remember: see record."] 
It. One who bears witness ; a witness. Prompt. 
Pan., p. 426. 2. One who records; specifi- 
cally, a person whose official duty is to register 
writings or transactions, as the keeper of the 
rolls of a city, or the like. 
Elihoreph and Ahiah, . . . scribes ; Jehoshaphat the 
son of Ahilud, the recorder. 1 Ki. iv. 3. 
I ... asked the mayor what meant this wilful silence ; 
His answer was, the people were not wont 
To be spoke to but by the recorder. 
Shak., Rich. III., iii. 7. 30. 
3. A judge having local criminal jurisdiction 
in a city or borough. [The designation is little 
used in the United States except in the State of 
New York.] 4t. A musical instrument of the 
flageolet family, having a long tube with seven 
holes and a mouthpiece. In some cases an eighth 
hole, covered with gold-beaters' skin, appears near the 
mouthpiece, apparently to influence the quality of the 
tone. The compass of the instrument was about two oc- 
taves. Also record. 
O, the recorders.' let me see one. . . . Will you play upon 
this pipe? Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 360. 
Anon they move 
In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood 
Of flutes and soft recorders. Milton, P. L, i. 551. 
5. A registering apparatus ; specifically, in te- 
leg., a receiving instrument in which a perma- 
nent record of the signals is made. In the earlier 
form, as invented by Horse, the record was made by em- 
bossing on a ribbon of paper by means of a style fixed to 
one end of a lever, which carried at the other en 
recountal 
ink were afterward substituted for the style. In Bain's 
chemical recorder the dots and dashes were registered by 
Morse Recorder or Register. 
a, base ; b, electromagnet ; c, screws for terminals of the wires ; rf, 
armature : e, armature-lever ;/, stylus, earned by lever e; f, paper 
tape ; ft, mechanism for unwinding the tape from the spool r, and 
feeding it between the rolls./,./"/ , armature-lever spring. 
the chemical decomposition of some substance with which 
the paper was impregnated, the decomposition being pro- 
duced on the passage of a current of electricity. In Thom- 
son's siphon recorder, used principally on long cable-lines, 
a fine glass tube bent into the shape of a siphon is attached 
to the movable part of the receiving instrument, one arm 
armature of an electromagnet. 
id the 
Several devices for using 
Siphon Recorder, a, siphon ; *, reel. 
of which dips into a vessel of ink, and the other moves 
back and forth at right angles to a strip of paper which is 
regularly moved by clockwork. The electrification of the 
ink causes it to be projected from the end of the tube in 
minute drops, so that the movementsof the coil are record- 
ed on the slip of paper in very fine dots very near one an- 
other. The principal advantage of this instrument is that 
only a very feeble current is required to give a permanent 
record of the_signals. 
recordership (re-kor'der-ship), n. [< recorder 
+ -ship.'] The office of recorder; also, the pe- 
riod during which a person holds this office. 
record-office (rek'ord-of'is), . A place where 
public records are kept and may be consulted, 
recorporification (re-k6r"po-ri-fi-ka'shon), n. 
[< re- + corporification.'] The act of embody- 
ing again, or the state of being reembodied; 
the state of being invested anew with a body. 
Boyle, Works, III. 53. [Rare.] 
recouch (re-kouch'), v. i. [< OF. (and F.) re- 
coucher = It. ricollocare, replace ; as re- + 
couch, v."] To lie down again ; retire again to a 
couch. SirH. Wotton, Reliquise, p. 386. [Rare.] 
recounselt, v. t. A Middle English form of 
reconcile. 
recount 1 (re-kounf), v. t. [Early mod. E. also 
recompt; < ME. recompten, < OF. reconter (cf. F. 
raconter) = Sp. Pg. recontar = It. ricontare, < 
ML. recomputare, recall to mind, narrate, count, 
relate, < L. re-, again, + computare, count, com- 
pute: see eottiA.] 1. To relate in detail; recite; 
tell or narrate the particulars of; rehearse. 
The greatest enimyes to discipline, as Plato recompteth, 
are labours and sleepe. 
Lyly, Euphues, Anat of Wit, p. 143. 
I must 
Once in a month recount what thou hast been. 
Shak., Tempest, i. 2. 262. 
The lawyer . . . 
Went angling down the Saco, and, returning, 
Recounted his adventures and mishaps. 
Whittier, Bridal of Pennacook. 
2t. To account ; consider. 
Thy wordes as japes ought wel to be recompted. 
Lydgate, The Bayte. 
= Syn. 1. To narrate, repeat, detail. 
recount 2 (re-kounf), v. t. [< re- + count 1 . ] To 
count again, 
recount* (rfi-konnf), . [< recounts, r .] \ 
counting anew ; a second or repeated count. 
recountal (re-koun'tal), n. [< recount 1 + -at.'] 
The act of recounting; a detailed narration. 
[Rare.] 
