Re*cord" (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [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.
Re*cord", v. i. 1.
To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.]
Praying all the way, and recording upon the
words which he before had read.
Fuller.
2. To sing or repeat a tune. [Obs.]
Shak.
Whether the birds or she recorded
best.
W. Browne.
Rec"ord (r&ebreve;k"&etilde;rd), n. [OF.
recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See
Record, v. t.] 1. A
writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is
recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew
kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a
certain time; a family record.
2. Especially: (a) An official
contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or
public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances;
the records of the receiver of taxes. (b)
An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered
in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by
law. (c) An official contemporaneous
memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial
record. (d) The various legal papers used
in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court;
as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the
record.
3. Testimony; witness; attestation.
John bare record, saying.
John
i. 32.
4. That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge
of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.
5. That which has been, or might be, recorded;
the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as
in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad
record.
6. That which has been publicly achieved in
any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative
manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.
Court of record (pron. r&?;*k&?;rd" in
Eng.), a court whose acts and judicial proceedings are written
on parchment or in books for a perpetual memorial. --
Debt of record, a debt which appears to be due
by the evidence of a court of record, as upon a judgment or a
cognizance. -- Trial by record, a trial
which is had when a matter of record is pleaded, and the opposite
party pleads that there is no such record. In this case the trial is
by inspection of the record itself, no other evidence being
admissible. Blackstone. -- To beat, or
break, the record
(Sporting), to surpass any performance of like kind as
authoritatively recorded; as, to break the record in a walking
match.
