Re·cord v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Recording.]
 1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] “I it you record.”
 2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
 They longed to see the day, to hear the lark
 Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest.   --Fairfax.
 3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.
    Those things that are recorded of him . . . are written in the chronicles of the kings.   --1 Esd. i. 42.
 To record a deed, mortgage, lease, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public.