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enrol (v.)[enrol 词源字典]: alternative spelling of enroll. Related: Enroled; enroling.[enrol etymology, enrol origin, 英语词源]
enroll (v.): mid-14c. (transitive), from Old French enroller "record in a register, write in a roll" (13c., Modern French enrôler), from en- "make, put in" (see en- (1)) + rolle (see roll (n.)). Related: Enrolled; enrolling.
enrollment (n.): also enrolment, mid-15c., "act of enrolling," from Anglo-French enrollement, from Middle French enrollement, from Old French enroller "record in a register" (see enroll). Meaning "total number enrolled" is from 1859, American English.
ensample (n.): "precedent to be followed, illustrative instance; a pattern, model," c. 1300, variant of asaumple, from Old French essample "example" (see example). The survival of this variant form is due to its use in New Testament in KJV (1 Pet. v.3).
ensconce (v.): 1580s, "to cover with a fort," from en- (1) "make, put in" + sconce "small fortification, shelter," perhaps via French, probably from Dutch schans "earthwork" (compare Middle High German schanze "bundle of sticks"), which is of uncertain origin. Hence, "to fix firmly, settle" (1590s). Related: Ensconced.
ensemble (n.): 1703, "union of parts, parts of a thing taken together," from French ensemblée "all the parts of a thing considered together," from Late Latin insimul "at the same time," from in- intensive prefix + simul "at the same time," related to similis (see similar). Musical sense of "union of all parts in a performance" in English first attested 1844. Of women's dress and accessories, from 1927. Earlier in English as an adverb (mid-15c.), "together, at the same time."
enshrine (v.): 1580s, from en- (1) "make, put in" + shrine (n.). Related: Enshrined; enshrining.
enshroud (v.): 1580s, from en- (1) "make, put in" + shroud (n.). Related: Enshrouded; enshrouding.
ensign (n.): early 15c., "a token, sign, symbol; badge of office, mark or insignia of authority or rank;" also "battle flag, flag or banner of a ship or troop of soldiers," via Scottish, from Old French enseigne (12c.) "mark, symbol, signal; flag, standard, pennant," from Latin insignia (plural); see insignia, which is a doublet of this word. As the word for the soldier who carries the flag, 1510s. U.S. Navy sense of "commissioned officer of the lowest rank" is from 1862. French navy had rank of enseigne de vaisseau since at least early 18c. Until 1871 one of the lowest grades of commissioned officers in a British army infantry regiment, also a rank in the American Revolutionary army.
ensilage (n.): 1879, from French ensilage, from ensiler "put in a silo," from Spanish ensilar (see silo).
enslave (v.): 1640s, from en- (1) "make, make into" + slave (n.). Related: Enslaved; enslaving.
enslavement (n.): 1690s, from enslave + -ment.
ensnare (v.): 1570s, from en- (1) "make, put in" + snare (n.). Related: Ensnared; ensnaring.
ensorcell (v.): also ensorcel, "to bewitch," 1540s, from French ensorceller, from Old French ensorceler, dissimilated from ensorcerer from en- (see en- (1)) + verb from sorcier "sorcerer, wizard" (see sorcery). Related: Ensorcelled; ensorceled.
ensue (v.): c. 1400, "seek after, pursue; follow (a path)," from Old French ensu-, past participle stem of ensivre "follow close upon, come afterward," from Late Latin insequere, from Latin insequi "to pursue, follow, follow after; come next," from in- "upon" (see in- (2)) + sequi "follow" (see sequel). Early 15c. as "follow (as a consequence), to result;" mid-15c. as "to follow" in time or space, "to come or appear next, be subsequent to, happen subsequently." Related: Ensued; ensues; ensuing.
ensure (v.): late 14c., from Anglo-French enseurer, from en- "make" (see en- (1)) + Old French seur "sure" (see sure); probably influenced by Old French asseurer "assure." Compare insure. Related: Ensured; ensures; ensuring.
entablature (n.): 1610s, in architecture, nativization of Italian intavolatura; see en- (1) + tablature.
entail (v.): mid-14c., "convert (an estate) into 'fee tail' (feudum talliatum)," from en- (1) "make" + taile "legal limitation," especially of inheritance, ruling who succeeds in ownership and preventing the property from being sold off, from Anglo-French taile, Old French taillie, past participle of taillier "allot, cut to shape," from Late Latin taliare "to split" (see tailor). Sense of "have consequences" is 1829, via the notion of "inseparable connection." Related: Entailed; entailling; entailment.
entangle (v.): early 15c., from en- (1) + tangle (n.). Related: Entangled; entangling.
entanglement (n.): 1630s, "that which entangles," from entangle + -ment. From 1680s as "act of entangling." Foreign entanglements does not appear as such in Washington's Farewell Address (1796), though he warns against them. The phrase is found in William Coxe's 1798 memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole.