registraladj.
/ˈrɛdʒᵻstr(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈrɛdʒəstrəl/ 1. Of or relating to a register or registers; (of information) derived from or authenticated by a register. Now rare.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [adjective]
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1612 Extract Rec. Court Parl. Aix in Life & Death Lewis Gaufredy sig. C3v An other Registrall information, taken by the saide Commissarie..touching the accidents..concurring in the person of the saide Magdalen.
1632 Bishops Transcripts, Bilsington (MS.) A coppy-registral of all such Xtnings Marriages and Burials as have been in..Bilsington.
1847 A. J. Davis Princ. of Nature (1852) ii. 536 The fifth book, which follows, entitled ‘Acts of the Apostles,’ is an historical commentary and registral production of Luke.
1885 Athenæum 26 Dec. 843/1 It will contain copies of the registral acts of birth and death of all the Foscolos.
1912 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gaz. 11 Oct. 6/1 It is of interest to Iowans to know that our Iowa room in this marble palace is used as the registral office.
1989 T. N. Bisson Medieval France & Pyrenean Neighbours ii. ix. 196 It [sc. the Liber Feudorum] was organized territorially, just as was, undoubtedly, the registral inventory of the direct domain over which Ramon de Caldes must often have pored.
2. Music and Linguistics. Of or relating to register (register n.1 9).
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1850 R. S. Willis Church Chorals & Choir Stud. 12 That style of instrumental music..harmonizes and tempers the soul,..by melodious ornament, and registral variety.
1899 Music May 33 The Scherzo opens with a theme..which runs into a sequential passage of ordinary kind (but made a ‘little new’ by sudden registral transitions).
1905 G. Saenger tr. H. Kling Mod. Orchestration & Instrumentation ii. 173 This instrument possesses 2 Key-boards..which can be extended to 8 vibrating octaves,..offering opportunity for the production of countless and surprising registral combinations.
1967 E. Salzman 20th-cent. Music xiv. 173 Every kind of registral, rhythmic, dynamic, and color shift.
1976 C. A. Ferguson in T. Heubner Socioling. Perspectives (1996) ii. ix. 128 Registral and stylistic features may cut across the various components of a grammar (phonology, syntax, lexicon) in complex ways.
1989 Word 40 117 The registral varieties of English associated with the diversity of contexts in which language is used.
2003 L. Lockwood Beethoven xxi. 460 He sympathizes with what seemed to be the performers' struggle to master its dissonances and registral extremes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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