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#20654 03/02/01 11:24 AM
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good point! ban these erroneous banners which flout the sky..


Have a good weekend people

[expectantly waiting for someone to remember (and perhaps add) to the admittedly vague topic of the thread]


#20655 03/02/01 04:59 PM
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Registrate
"Registrate" is a word. It's used by organists, and means to choose the combinations of stops, couplers, and pistons to be used in playing a selection, also to fix them in the instrument's memory by means of the stop-setting mechanism, if there is one. "Registration" is the arrangement so chosen. This is not a new word. It's used by Albert Schweitzer in his book on J.S. Bach, written before 1905.


#20656 03/02/01 05:11 PM
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oh, it's older than that...

registrate - Obs. Chiefly Sc.
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. registrare: see prec.]
trans. To register (in lit. and fig. uses).

1570 in Westm. Gaz. (1897) 16 June 10/2 Fame shall registrate her princelie deeds. 1574 Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 359 Commanding our clerkis+to registrate the samyn. 1617 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 546/2 To receave fra the pairties thair euidentis* and to registrat že same. 1676 W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 372 They would registrate that sense of it in the books of Parliament. 1776 J. Neill 23 Serm. 60 These and other Young Saints God hath registrated in his book.

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-joe bfstplk


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