Verb

(en verb)

To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

(Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).

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Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.

To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

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.