entable

Verb

1. To record; to enter into a permanent record.
   • He is the embodied law, entabled on Sinai; the perfect sacrifice, foreshadowed in the temple; the consecrated life set forth in the old ritual; the wisdom and power divine desired of the nations. - 1865, The General...
   • It was a letter of thanks which he requested should thus be entabled and hung up in all the churches and chapels of Cornwall “in everlasting remembrance of a people's faithfulness and a sovereign's gratitude.” - 1868,...
   • It is greatly to be regretted that greater care is not taken in reporting the names and ages of the loved ones who have gone before, that the same may be entabled in the permanent record of the Association. - 1886,...
2. To add to a schedule of participants in events.
   • Groups of them were entabled each week or fortnight to sing the antiphons, responds, versicle, gradual, Benedicamus, O Redemptor or Gloria Laus; the number entabled varied according to the solemnity of the feasts. -...
   • On the greatest occasions he was to take personal charge of High Mass, and on others to appoint experienced vicars to be rectores chori (ʻrulers of the choir'), and to nominate those members of the choir entabled to...
   • According to Jean Beleth, a twelfth-century liturgist thoroughly familiar with the ritual at Notre Dame, the boys by this time had been entabled to sing important chants during the divine offices, namely the versicle at...
3. To fill a table with; to present in tabular format.
   • The data to show this type of effect is entabled for the monovalent group, children and adults, in Tables 7a and 7b. - 1960, Herman Kleinman, Robert N. Barr, Henry Bauer, Anne C. Kimball, Marion K. Cooney, Jacob E....
   • During pass one, the source program is copied onto an intermediate storage device or entabled in preparation for pass two. - 1970, Harry Katzan, Advanced Programming; Programming and Operating Systems, page 15:
   • For disorders sharply delimited by age, this criterion may give a spurious impression of imprecision; where feasible in such instances, numbers of deaths are also entabled. - 1973, Leonard T. Kurland, John F. Kurtzke,...
4. To create multiple flat raised areas in.
   • Built on a place with a privileged landscape view, with the cloister in rustic style, the roof's weatherboard finished in entabled tiles, the Monastery's windows and doors are of flat lintels with grates on the ground...
   • By afternoon of the day following he was deep in the bolson and a day later he was entering the range country and the broken land that entabled the desert mountains to the north. - 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty...
   • Why, sir, he began to expatiate upon what it was conjectured its barbarous religion had been, the purpose of its entabled pillars, how it would have appeared were it not half ruined. - 2010, John Fowles, A Maggot, page...