immatriculate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To formally enroll in an institution or register in an official record, especially in the context of getting a university degree or registering a vehicle.
Example Sentences
- "[...] the bike would come with the paper needed to immatriculate it legally for Switzerland."
- "We will see later what the reason was. But it is clear that the reason was not the confessionality, as it is claimed now, nor the privilege, but to solve a problem: how to immatriculate in the Registry those entities that have a patrimony but lack a written title that accredits it, but it is evident that it is theirs". [...] "The 1909 Mortgage Law continued with the same thing. In 1944 follows the reform of the Mortgage Law, and then comes the 206 that we all know". (This article 206 allowed the Church to immatriculate the temples, thus overcoming "a discrimination" existing "since the beginning of the Registry and until 1998": "the Catholic Church was the only religious denomination in Spain that could not immatriculate its places of worship", explains the website of the Episcopal Conference)."
- "To compete at regional, communautaire, national or international equestrian shows, a horse should be immatriculated to Equibel. A life-time (paid) immatriculation is required to compete at higher competition levels."
Etymology
From Latin immatriculatus.
Inflected Forms
immatriculates (present, singular)
immatriculating (participle, present)
immatriculated (participle, past)
immatriculated (past)