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REGISTER , a See also:

record of facts, proceedings, acts, events, names, &c., entered regularly for reference in a See also:volume kept for that purpose, also the volume in which the entries are made. The Fr. registre is taken from the Med. See also:Lat. registrum for registum, See also:Late Lat. regesta, things recorded, hence See also:list, See also:catalogue, from regerere, to carry or See also:bear back, to transcribe, enter on a See also:roll. For the keeping of public registers dealing with various subjects see See also:REGISTRATION and the articles there referred to, and for the records of baptisms, marriages and burials made by a See also:parish clergyman, see See also:section Parish Registers below. The keeper of a register was, until the beginning of the 19th See also:century, usually known as a " register," but that See also:title has in See also:Great See also:Britain now been superseded by " registrar "; it still survives in the See also:Lord Clerk Register, an officer of See also:state in See also:Scotland, nominally the See also:official keeper of the See also:national records, whose duties are per-formed by the See also:Deputy Clerk Register. In the See also:United States the title is still " register." The See also:term " register " has also been applied to See also:mechanical contrivances for the automatic registration or recording of figures, &c. (see See also:CASH REGISTER), to a stop in an See also:organ, to the See also:compass of a See also:voice or musical See also:instrument, and also to an apparatus for regulating the in- and outflow of See also:air, See also:heat, See also:steam, See also:smoke or the like. Some of these instances of the application of the term are apparently due to a confusion in See also:etymology, with Lat. regere, to See also:rule, regulate.

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