Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-CORD', v.t. [L. recordor, to call to mind, to remember, from re and cor, cordis, the heart or mind; Sp. recordar, to remind, also to awake from sleep; Port. to remind, to con a lesson, or get by heart; Fr. recorder, to con a lesson, also to record.]

1. To register; to enroll; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic or correct evidence of a thing; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record a deed or lease; to record historical events.
2. To imprint deeply on the mind or memory; as, to record the sayings of another in the heart. – Locke.
3. To cause to be remembered. So ev'n and morn recorded the third day. – Milton.
4. To recite; to repent. [Not in use.] – Fairfax.
5. To call to mind. [Not in use.] – Spenser.