† imbookv.
Scottish. Obsolete.
transitive. To enter in a book; to book, enrol, register.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (transitive)]
book?c1225
descrivec1325
registera1393
rollc1440
describea1475
regestc1475
act1492
enregister1523
registrate1570
to book up1577
matriculate1586
imbook1587
muster1587
immatriculate1602
imbreviate1609
re-register1807
to check in or out1918
1587 MS. R. Long (Brit. Mus.) To regester, imbooke, or incronicle all such worthye persons..as by there valyant actes have deserved perpetuall remembraunce.
1618 in J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 319 Selected..wise brethren, should, with the clerk, forme the acts, see them imbooked.
1620 W. Scot Apol. Narr. (1846) 76 He said he wold not suffer them to be imbooked.
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