entable

See also: entablé

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ table.

Verb

entable (third-person singular simple present entables, present participle entabling, simple past and past participle entabled)

1. To record; to enter into a permanent record.
   • 1865, The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer, page 288:

     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.

   • 1868, Elihu Burritt, A Walk from London to Land's End and Back, page 204:

     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.”

   • 1886, Minutes of the Thirty-First Anniversary of the Lake Shore Baptist Association:

     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.

   • 1893, Walter Thomas Cheney, An Apocalypse of Life, page 284:

     Study its record and history which you have here entabled upon these psychic elements.

2. To add to a schedule of participants in events.
   • 1967, Kathleen Edwards, The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages, page 315:

     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.

   • 1999, Roger Bowers, English Church Polyphony, page 11:

     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 take individual parts in the ceremony and singing.

   • 2008, Craig Wright, Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550, page 166:

     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 the end of each group of psalms and antiphons at Matins, the Benedicamus domino at Lauds, Vespers, and Compoline, and the gradual (or Responsorium) of the Mass on certain feasts.

3. To fill a table with; to present in tabular format.
   • 1960, Herman Kleinman, Robert N. Barr, Henry Bauer, Anne C. Kimball, Marion K. Cooney, Jacob E. Bearman, Wayne E. Mathey, “Further Experiences with Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccines in Minnesota”, in Second International Conference on Live Poliovirus Vaccines, page 348:

     The data to show this type of effect is entabled for the monovalent group, children and adults, in Tables 7a and 7b.

   • 1970, Harry Katzan, Advanced Programming; Programming and Operating Systems, page 15:

     During pass one, the source program is copied onto an intermediate storage device or entabled in preparation for pass two.

   • 1973, Leonard T. Kurland, John F. Kurtzke, Irving D. Goldberg, Epidemiology of Neurologic and Sense Organ Disorders, page xxx:

     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.

   • 1988, Elizabeth Frick, A Place to Stand: User Education in Canadian Libraries, page 337:

     Janke describes BRS/After Dark and compares it to DIALOG's Knowledge Index for coverage, ease of use, commands, hours of access, and cost. The comparison is later entabled in an appendix […]

4. To create multiple flat raised areas in.
   • 1985, Tom Maia, Velha Bahia de Hoje, page 15:

     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 floor and fitted with glass […]

   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 263:

     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.

   • 2010, John Fowles, A Maggot, page 148:

     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.

Anagrams

• Beltane, tenable

French

Verb

entable

1. inflection of entabler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

entable

1. inflection of entablar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative