▪ I. registrary1
(ˈrɛdʒɪstrərɪ)
[ad. med.L. registrāri-us (Du Cange): see register n.1 and -ary1.]
A registrar. Chiefly in University use, and now retained only at Cambridge.
| c 1541 in Hearne Collect. 11 Dec. an. 1705 (O.H.S.) I. 124 Tho. Key Registrarie of the University. 1625 Laud Diary 10 Oct. in Hist. (1695) 24, I and my Company dined in the open Air, in a place called Pente-Cragg, where my Registrary had his Country-House. 1691 Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 1 The publick Scribe or Registrary of the University of Oxon. 1707 Lond. Gaz. No. 4294/3 The several Lists of Incumbents..are reduced to An. 1700. by the present Registrary. 1829 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 103 The Registrary's Office and Record Room. 1894 Circular, Fellow of Trinity College, and Registrary of the University from 1862 to 1891. |
| transf. 1853 Merivale Rom. Rep. vi. (1867) 166 The senate, reduced to the mere registrary of its haughty champion's decrees. |
▪ II. † ˈregistrary2 Obs. rare—1.
[Cf. prec. and -ary1 B. 2.]
A register or registry.
| 1716 M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 173 For, say they, Godwin ‘transcribes out of Josseline and Mason, as if he had them immediately from the Archives and Registraries’. |