Verb

(ambitransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the song.

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To commence existence.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

Vast chain of being! which from God began .

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.

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*:Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

(lb) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.

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(lb) To go or come into (a state or profession).

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(lb) To type (something) into a computer; to .

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(lb) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.

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To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.

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*:I am pleased to notify the Congress of my intent to enter into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Government of Singapore.

To become effective; to come into effect.

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(lb) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.

(legal) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order.

to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment

(Burrill)

to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry .

(transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.

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to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).

entered according to act of Congress

(obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.

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*:This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings, / Shall enter me with him.