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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Recorded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Recording}.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See {Cordial}, {Heart}.]
1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] ''I it you record.'' --Chaucer.
2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax.
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 historical events.
Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i. 42.
{To record a deed}, {mortgage}, {lease}, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
recorded
adjective
1: set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction; "recorded music" [ant: {live}]
2: made a matter of official record; "a properly recorded deed to the property" [ant: {unrecorded}]
3: (of securities) having the owner's name entered in a register; "recorded holders of a stock"
4: recorded or listed in a directory; "a recorded number"
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