registryn.
/ˈrɛdʒᵻstri/, U.S. /ˈrɛdʒəstri/ 1. A register, a book of record; (also) an entry in a register.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun]
Domesday Book1178
registera1325
bookc1405
red book?1445
registery1483
register book1515
regesture1526
registrya1529
enroll1533
ledger1550
ledger-book1553
registry book1562
by-book1593
regest1670
registrary1696
hall-book1746
blotter1887
society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > entry in
registera1443
registration1599
registry1770
re-register1858
a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) sig. D.iiv As playnly it dothe appere..In the regestry Of my lorde of Cantorbury.
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. vi. xi. §3 648 God commaunded him to take a Copie thereof, out of the Registrie, or Recordes, whiche were thought to be voide of al corruption, and were..vnder the Custodie of the Priestes.
1622 J. Hughes St. Pauls Exercise 7 A Chronicle, or a Registrie, wherein all our workes are written.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) i. 28 There hath been much discourse, about introducing of Registries into England.
1770 Monthly Rev. 349 All registries agree in this, that the S.E. and N.W. winds are nearly equal.
1780 Priscilla Adams vs. Abraham Adams 5 in Trials for Adultery VII The party proponent doth exhibit and hereunto annex an extract from the registry of births and baptisms.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1282 The certificate may be proved to have been granted to the plaintiff by the production of the registry, from which it was copied.
1825 Act 6 George IV c. 110 §11 A Book shall be kept by the Collector..and every Registry shall be numbered in Progression.
1891 Mayston Index Customs Gen. Ord. 194 Every entry in registry is to be signed.
1932 C. E. Robinson Straw Votes iv. 71 In some states, telephone directories or automobile registration lists were employed; in others, names were compiled from the registry of voters.
1976 K. Reddick Horses 82 To qualify for entry to the Association's registry, all horses foaled since 1969 must have one parent registered in the regular or breeding-stock registry.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 Apr. (Styles section) 6/1 In California, my partner and I signed a benefitless domestic partnership registry in 2001.
2. A repository where registers are kept; a register office. Also in clerk of (the) registry. Cf. Land Registry n. at land n.1 Compounds 3.
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society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept
registery1483
chancery1523
registry1531
cartuary1539
Register House1540
cartulary?1541
arches1626
register office1641
archive1645
record office1647
tabulary1656
registry office1720
registrature1762
dufter1791
records department1825
PRO1892
morgue1914
1531 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 63 To the clerk of registri, takand ȝerlie in the thesauraris compt.
1538 in R. K. Hannay Acts Lords of Council Public Affairs (1932) 469 That all charteris drawin furth of the registri at the kingis grace command..subscrivit be the clerk of registri direct to the chancellarie, suld [etc.].
1587 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 441/2 Oure clerk of regestri directair of the chancellarie and dytair of the rollis.
1603 Constit. & Canons Eccl. cxxvi Bishop's Registrie... All such Possessours..shall once in euery yere exhibite into the publike Registrie of the Bishop of the Diocesse..euery originall Testament.
?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 449 Letters from Mr Green..to Wh[itelocke]..desiring him to procure a place for him in the new Registry.
1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 64 Many Instruments of such Consolidations may be seen in the Episcopal Registries of this Realm.
1792 D. Lysons Environs London I. 251 I found no presentations, or other records, relating to this chantry and guild, in the registry at Winchester.
a1800 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. (1803) 284 The place where such register books are deposited..is the Registry.
1869 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1876) i. 27 A great volume of time is now shutting, the roll is folded up for the registry, and we must open another.
1874 Act 37 & 38 Vict. c. 85 §2 All documents..shall be..sent to the registry of the Arches Court of Canterbury..or the registry of the Chancery Court of York.
1924 C. Jenkins in Tudor Stud. 31 The old Prerogative Registry remained in the right-hand tower, in the room that still bears its name, until the passing of the Probate Act (1857) deprived it of its functions and also of its contents.
1967 E. Rudinger Wills & Probate 97 A week or so later he receives from the registry the land certificate, which is substantially the same as the charge certificate.
2006 C. Murray Murder in Samarkand ii. 30 Jackie ran the registry, which meant archiving the papers.
3. The action of registering; registration.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > registration
descrivingc1325
descriptiona1425
descrying1440
brevementc1475
enrolment1552
register1563
registration?1566
booking1583
matriculating1585
registry1589
inrotulation1590
counterrolment1598
enregistering1604
taxation1686
re-registration1836
preregistration1928
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. x. 19 The memoriall and registry of all great fortunes, the praise of vertue [etc.].
1653 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) I. 514 The whole City of Bristol (as to the Place of Registry, and Matters to be Registered) is to be accounted Part of the County of Somerset.
1694 Act 6 & 7 Will. III c. 6 And if any undue preference..shall be made, either in point of Registry or Payment [etc.].
1744 Considerations against laying New Duty upon Sugar 104 Such would be..the answer of our builders to the ship owners of India, who claim a British registry.
1775 E. Burke Speech Resol. for Concil. Colonies 6 The plan..derives..one great advantage from the proposition and registry of that Noble Lord's Project.
1783 J. Brown Rep. High Court Parl. 6 487 The registry of the settlement of 1720, in December 1729, could not affect his title.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1282 (note) An action of trover for the certificate of registry itself.
1825 Act 6 George IV c. 110 §11 At every Port where Registry shall be made.
1828 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law III. xlv. 107 Upon every change of master, the owner must report such change to the collector, and have a memorandum of such change endorsed upon the certificate of registry.
1921 Mariner's Mirror 7 223/2 An Act for the registering of British vessels..had provided that on the back of a certificate of registry should be inscribed an account of the shares or parts of the owners mentioned in the certificate expressed in sixty-fourths.
1953 S. H. Longrigg Iraq, 1900 to 1950 iv. 108 That of ‘Revenue’..covered the varied field of land and many miscellaneous Revenues, land registry, land questions, surveys, agriculture, irrigation, and municipalities.
1984 W. Douglass Emigration South Ital. Town ii. 12 The finanze and imposte offices (for registry of taxation and land tenure), the carabinieri, the highway patrol, [etc.].
1995 Classic Critters: Rare Breeds Mag. Summer 42/2 Incorporation under the Animal Pedigree Act should be accomplished shortly and this will give us the important option of self registry.
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > registrar > office of
registership1574
registry1648
registrarship1796
1648 J. March Reports 39 In our Case the Office of Registry is belonging to the Bishoprick.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Register The lord register, who before the Union was the fifth Officer of State, and besides the Registry, was Clerk of the Parliament, Treasury, Exchequer, and Session.
1740 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) at Garter The office of registry belongs to the deanery of Windsor.
5. Originally and chiefly North American. In retailing: a service whereby a list of preferred items is maintained from which gifts may be purchased for a wedding or other special occasion; (also) the list itself. Frequently with modifying word, as bridal registry, gift registry, etc.
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1933 Los Angeles Times 17 Mar. i. 7 (advt.) Wedding gift registry. Registration of patterns of China, Glassware, Silverware, as selected by brides is kept in the respective sections for the reference of those searching for gifts.
1985 Jrnl. Aesthetic Educ. 19 80 The Metropolitan Museum in New York has even established a bridal registry for the convenience of its affianced visitors.
1999 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Electronic ed.) 1 Apr. While brides make up the bulk of their registry business, according to several retailers, expectant parents are increasingly using this service.
2006 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 23 July 57/1 Is it a bit rude or just a cop-out to ask people to donate money to a travel agent,..instead of ponying up for a wedding present or something from the bridal gift registry?
6. Computing. A database in Windows systems that holds configuration settings for the operating system, software applications, and hardware. More fully Windows registry.
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1992 Network World 30 Mar. 42/2 Windows NT machines will..keep both hardware and user profiles in a local registry.
1996 Independent 11 Nov. ii. 18/2 Plagued by Windows 95 telling you that there are registry errors.
2001 Maximum PC Sept. 58 Our system benchmarks have a way of..fouling the Windows Registry.
2007 J. Hassell & T. Cambpell Windows Vista xxx. 436 The registry is so central to Windows Vista's operation that any changes might have unintended consequences.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
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1783 J. Brown Rep. High Court Parl. 6 487 By the registry act, the memorial ought to express all the lands affected; whereas, in that memorial, only a moiety of the lands in question was mentioned.
1817 Times 11 Apr. 2/2 The cases relating to seamen's wages, and ship registry acts.
1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 306 The registry tickets which for some time were given to seamen are now abolished.
1891 Official Postal Guide 732 The cost of registering mail matter is ten cents for registry fee, in addition to postage.
1912 P.O. Dept. Ann. Rep. 290 The registry fee was increased from 8 to 10 cents November 1, 1909.
1913 W. F. Elliott Comm. Law of Contracts II. §721. 72/2 A certain registry entry which had been introduced at a trial evidenced the marriage of the parties.
1969 Mariner's Mirror 55 12 The [ship-]owners were divided into Subscribing and Non-subscribing, the latter being part-owners not present to sign the registry documents.
1996 Notes for Praelectors (Univ. Cambr.) 7 5.2 Supplicats must normally be received in the Registry Division not later than 10 a.m. on the Friday eight days before a Saturday congregation.
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registry key n. Computing a location in a registry which stores particular configuration data, and which may also contain other such locations lower down in the registry's hierarchy.
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1993 Trouble using Event Log Facility in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 (Usenet newsgroup) 15 July Using REGEDT32, I created a registry key..and put two values into it.
2000 W. J. Glenn Word 2000 in Nutshell 448 Registry keys are added, deleted, and modified according to user options and installed software.
2007 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 3 Sept. Skype offers the ability to set a registry key to disable file transfers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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