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entable en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- Middle English table English table English entable From en- + table.

Meanings

1. To record; to enter into a permanent record.
   • Study its record and history which you have here entabled upon these psychic elements. 1893, Walter Thomas Cheney, An Apocalypse of Life, page 284:
   • It is greatly to be regretted that greater care is not taken in reporting the names and ages of the loved ones who have gone before, that the same may be entabled in the permanent record of the Association. 1886, Minutes of the Thirty-First Anniversary of the Lake Shore Baptist Association:
   • It was a letter of thanks which he requested should thus be entabled and hung up in all the churches and chapels of Cornwall “in everlasting remembrance of a people's faithfulness and a sovereign's gratitude.” 1868, Elihu Burritt, A Walk from London to Land's End and Back, page 204:
   • He is the embodied law, entabled on Sinai; the perfect sacrifice, foreshadowed in the temple; the consecrated life set forth in the old ritual; the wisdom and power divine desired of the nations. 1865, The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer, page 288:
2. To add to a schedule of participants in events.
   • On the greatest occasions he was to take personal charge of High Mass, and on others to appoint experienced vicars to be rectores chori (ʻrulers of the choir'), and to nominate those members of the choir entabled to take individual parts in the ceremony and singing. 1999, Roger Bowers, English Church Polyphony, page 11:
   • Groups of them were entabled each week or fortnight to sing the antiphons, responds, versicle, gradual, Benedicamus, O Redemptor or Gloria Laus; the number entabled varied according to the solemnity of the feasts. 1967, Kathleen Edwards, The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages, page 315:
   • According to Jean Beleth, a twelfth-century liturgist thoroughly familiar with the ritual at Notre Dame, the boys by this time had been entabled to sing important chants during the divine offices, namely the versicle at the end of each group of psalms and antiphons at Matins, the Benedicamus domino at Lauds, Vespers, and Compoline, and the gradual (or Responsorium) of the Mass on certain feasts. 2008, Craig Wright, Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550, page 166:
3. To fill a table with; to present in tabular format.
   • The data to show this type of effect is entabled for the monovalent group, children and adults, in Tables 7a and 7b. 1960, Herman Kleinman, Robert N. Barr, Henry Bauer, Anne C. Kimball, Marion K. Cooney, Jacob E. Bearman, Wayne E. Mathey, “Further Experiences with Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccines in Minnesota”, in Second International Conference on Live Poliovirus Vaccines, page 348:
   • During pass one, the source program is copied onto an intermediate storage device or entabled in preparation for pass two. 1970, Harry Katzan, Advanced Programming; Programming and Operating Systems, page 15:
   • Janke describes BRS/After Dark and compares it to DIALOG's Knowledge Index for coverage, ease of use, commands, hours of access, and cost. The comparison is later entabled in an appendix […] 1988, Elizabeth Frick, A Place to Stand: User Education in Canadian Libraries, page 337:
   • For disorders sharply delimited by age, this criterion may give a spurious impression of imprecision; where feasible in such instances, numbers of deaths are also entabled. 1973, Leonard T. Kurland, John F. Kurtzke, Irving D. Goldberg, Epidemiology of Neurologic and Sense Organ Disorders, page xxx:
4. To create multiple flat raised areas in.
   • Built on a place with a privileged landscape view, with the cloister in rustic style, the roof's weatherboard finished in entabled tiles, the Monastery's windows and doors are of flat lintels with grates on the ground floor and fitted with glass […] 1985, Tom Maia, Velha Bahia de Hoje, page 15:
   • Why, sir, he began to expatiate upon what it was conjectured its barbarous religion had been, the purpose of its entabled pillars, how it would have appeared were it not half ruined. 2010, John Fowles, A Maggot, page 148:
   • By afternoon of the day following he was deep in the bolson and a day later he was entering the range country and the broken land that entabled the desert mountains to the north. 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 263:

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