Record \Re*cord"\, v. i.
1. To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.]
Praying all the way, and recording upon the words
which he before had read. --Fuller.
2. To sing or repeat a tune. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Whether the birds or she recorded best. --W. Browne.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recorded; p.
pr. & vb. n. Recording.]
[OE. recorden to repeat, remind,
F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- +
cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See Cordial, Heart.]
1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
[Obs.]
``I it you record.'' --Chaucer.
2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record
her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax.
3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to
printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to
write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose
of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to
enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to
record historical events.
Those things that are recorded of him . . . are
written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i.
42.
To record a deed, mortgage, lease, etc., to have a copy
of the same entered in the records of the office
designated by law, for the information of the public.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Record \Rec"ord\ (r[e^]k"[~e]rd), n. [OF. recort, record,
remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]
1. A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts
or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the
acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of
temperature during a certain time; a family record.
2. Especially:
(a) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts
of some public body, or public officer, are recorded;
as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the
receiver of taxes.
(b) An authentic official copy of a document which has
been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of
some officer designated by law.
(c) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the
proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
(d) The various legal papers used in a case, together with
memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is
not permissible to allege facts not in the record.
3. Testimony; witness; attestation.
John bare record, saying. --John i. 32.
4. That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or
events; a monument; a memorial.
5. That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known
facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as
in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good
or a bad record.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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