Record | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Re-cōrd', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. RECORDED; p. pr. & vb. n. RECORDING.] [O. & N. Fr. recorder, to remind, to remember, to rehearse, to record, Pr., Sp., & Pg. recorder, It. ricordare, Lat. recordāri, to remember, from re, again, back, and cor, cordis, the heart or mind.]

Sense 1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs. and rare.]

Sense 2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]

They longed to see the day, to see the lark, Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest. Fairfax.

Sense 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 a deed or lease; to record historical events.

Re-cōrd', v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To reflect; to meditate; to ponder. [Obs.] “Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read.” Fuller.

Sense 2. To sing or repeat a tune. [Obs. and rare.] “Whether the birds or she recorded best.” Browne.

Rĕc'ord, n.

noun

n. [O. Fr. record, remembrance, attestation, record, Pr. recort, Sp. recuerdo, It. ricordo. See supra.]

Sense 1. A register; an authentic copy of any writing, or an account or memorial of any facts and proceedings, entered in a book for preservation; an official contemporaneous memorandum in writing, drawn up by the proper officer of a court of justice, and containing a summary statement of the proceedings in an action at law brought before the court.

Burrill. New Am. Cyc.

Sense 2. A musical instrument of soft tone, formerly used; a recorder.

Court of Record, a court whose acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled on parchment or in books for a perpetual memorial.—Debt of record, a debt which appears to be due by the evidence of a court of record, as upon a judgment or a cognizance.—Trial by record, a trial which is had when a matter of record is pleaded, and the opposite party pleads that there is no such record. In this case the trial is by inspection of the record itself, no other evidence being admissible. Blackstone.

☞ Formerly often accented on the last syllable—record'; and in England still so accented in the phrase Court of Record.