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st) [f. LIST n.6
In senses 3 and 4 the word is now taken chiefly as an aphetic form of enlist, and written 'list.]
1. a. trans. To set down together in a list; to make a list of; to catalogue, register.
1614 RALEIGH Hist. World IV. i. §1 (1634) 457 These kings were of the nation of Argives who are listed as followeth.
1655 H. VAUGHAN Silex Scint., Rules & Lessons xx, When night comes, list thy deeds.
1712 Official Notice in
Lond. Gaz. No. 4994/3 The Persons bringing the said Tickets, are desired to List the same in a Numerical Order, and to write in their List the Name.
1861 E. O'CURRY Lect. MS. Materials 271 Of the Forbasa listed in the Book of Leinster there is one more so remarkable, that [etc.].
1887 Athenæum 6 Aug. 171/2 About one hundred species of butterflies have been listed.
b. To set down or enter in a special, formal, or official list (e.g. of persons or property for assessment, of stocks, etc.); U.S. to enter or register for taxation.
1658 Virginia Stat. (1823) I. 454 All negroes imported..and Indian servants..being sixteen years of age, to be listed and pay leavies as aforesaid.
1666 Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) IV. 136 Incase they be not accomodated with land amongst them with whom they are listed neare the Bay line.
1687 RYCAUT Contn. Knolles' Hist. Turks II. 223 There were listed fifty-five thousand, who paid duties of Harach.
1702 Hawick Kirk Session Rec. 4 Oct., The Minister..desired such as intended to communicate to list themselves this week.
1787 M. CUTLER in
Life, etc. (1888) I. 324 Spent the day in listing my money for Congress.
1877 BURROUGHS Taxation 214 Assessors are to list such lands only as are situate [etc.].
1881 Daily News 1 Nov. 5/7 Only seven cases were listed for to-day.
1893 Times 14 July 4/1 The shrinkage in the value of American securities ‘listed’ in this market.
c. U.S. To place (a property) in the hands of a real-estate agent for sale or rent; to add to the list of properties advertised by a real-estate agent. Cf. LISTING vbl. n.2 3.
1906 W. A. CARNEY Real Estate Business v. 20 A real estate broker..should have listed considerable property. Ibid. 21 He can sometimes list a real bargain. 1908 Amer. Real Estate Seller July 2 Every real estate dealer should have a form contract and use it. He should not list a property that he has not a contract on. 1909 Ibid. Aug. 6 The real estate dealers should combine and pass a resolution to list property exclusively. 1911 National Realty Jrnl. Mar. 14/2 The land owner, the investor, will also find it to his interest to recognize an active agent and list property with him. 1921 J. B. SPILKER Real Estate Business v. 25 Only those properties which in the mind of the sales manager are saleable, and only those properties which are secured at a fair price and reasonable to both the buyer and seller, should be listed for sale. 1945 G. H. BEURHAUS Who handles your Real Estate? (rev. ed.) vi. 19 The broker..proceeds to list property. 1972 J. L. GALE Listing Real Estate p. xix, Once we learn the ground rules for listing residences, we can then go on and successfully list property of any kind.
d. To enter (a name and address) in a telephone directory.
1959 R. STOUT Crime & Again 91 ‘I'll see if she's listed.’ I went to my desk for the Manhattan phone book. 1971 Post Office Telephone Directory Section 101: London Postal Area 12/1 A special Greater London Business directory has been introduced, listing certain businesses within about thirty miles of Charing Cross.
e. To protect (a building, etc.) by placing it on a statutory preservation register. Cf. LIST n.6 a(b).
1968 Act Eliz. II c. 72 §52 A building which, immediately before the date of the compulsory purchase order, was listed.
Ibid. §54 Matters which may be taken into account by the Minister in listing buildings.
1972 E. LEMARCHAND Cyanide with Compliments vi. 74 The lovely little seventeenth-century timber-framed house... It's recently been listed.
Ibid. xiii. 170 Some local preservation enthusiasts succeeded in getting the house listed as of architectural and historic interest.
1973 Daily Tel. 24 Mar. 14/6 Church House..was listed on Feb. 27 because of its architectural or historic merit. But workmen knocked a hole through the front wall on Tuesday.
2. To comprise in a list or catalogue; to enrol (among, in, into a certain number, under a certain head); to include or enrol in the number or membership of; to put in the same category with. Obs.
1622 MABBE tr.
Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. II. 142 He that..desires to be listed into the rolle of those that haue gotten greatest fame.
1637 MASSINGER Address to Shirley on his ‘Grateful Servant’, My obscure name, Listed with theirs, who here advance thy fame.
1649 MILTON Eikon. xxiv. Wks. 1851 III. 489 What are Chaplains? In State perhaps they may be listed among the upper Servingmen of som great houshold.
1668 PEPYS Diary 5 Feb., The persons therein concerned to be listed of this or that Church.
1675 TRAHERNE Chr. Ethics To Rdr., Vertues are listed in the rank of invisible things.
1704 SWIFT T. Tub Wks. 1768 I 51 It is under this class I have presumed to list my present treatise.
1727 A. HAMILTON New Acc. E. Ind. I. xxii. 274 All Trades and Occupations being listed into Tribes; none can marry out of their own Tribe.
1777 S
IR A. D
ICK Let. to Johnson 17 Feb. in Boswell
Johnson, I have..listed Dr. Samuel Johnson in some of my memorandums..under a name which [etc.].
3. a. To enter on the list of a military body; to appoint formally (an officer); also in pass. with compl., to be appointed or ‘gazetted’ as (captain, etc.). In later use only in narrower sense, to enrol (private soldiers), to receive as recruits; = ENLIST v. 1.
1643 Declar. Comm., Reb. Irel. 28 The Parliament..had made choice of, and listed all the Commanders..for that Expedition.
1647 CLARENDON Hist. Reb. II. §55 Some troops of those who had been listed by them under good officers.
1648 Eikon Bas. ix. 61 What Tumults could not do, an Army must, which is but Tumults listed.
1653 SHIRLEY Crt. Secret IV. 47, I was listed Captain, before some The Generall knew had been seven years in service.
1706 FARQUHAR Recruiting Officer I. i, I don't beat up for common soldiers; no, I list only grenadiers.
1736 BOLINGBROKE Patriot. (1749) 26 Looking on themselves like volunteers, not like men listed in the service.
1795-7 SOUTHEY Juvenile & Min. Poems Poet. Wks. II. 82, I was trapp'd by the Sergeant's palavering pretences, He listed me when I was out of my senses.
b. transf. and fig.
1668 W. PENN No Cross No Cr. Wks. 1782 II. 96 Last of all, it lists thee of the company of..Jesus; to fight under his banner.
1701 SWIFT Contests Nobles & Comm. Wks. 1755 II.
I. 50 He is listed in a party, where he neither knows the temper, nor designs, nor perhaps the person of his leader.
1742 YOUNG Nt. Th. II. 9 He that is born, is listed; life is war.
1750 CHESTERFIELD Lett. 5 Feb (1792) II. ccxvi. 332 You are but just listed in the world, and must be active, diligent, indefatigable.
1776 BENTHAM Fragm. Govt. Wks. 1843 I. 288 Men whose affections are already listed against the law in question.
1882 J. WALKER Jaunt to Auld Reekie 88 Farmer-folks in politics Wi' Tory lairds are listed.
4. a. refl. and intr. (for refl.) To have one's name entered upon the list of a military body; to engage for military service; = ENLIST v. 4 Phr. to list (oneself) a soldier or for a soldier.
1643 Declar. Comm., Reb. Irel. 62 Who..have lysted themselves in the Lord Dillons Troupe.
c1665 M
RS. H
UTCHINSON Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1846) 162 Secure yourself in some other parliament garrisons, or list into the castle.
1675 tr.
Machiavelli's Prince viii. (Rtldg. 1883) 57 In his youth [he] listed a soldier.
1702 SEDLEY Grumbler III. i. Wks. (1766) 233
Catau. Brillon has listed himself a solider.
Grichard. Listed himself a soldier!
Catau. Yes, Sir, listed to go to the war.
1709 STEELE Tatler No. 89
6 A Drum passing by,..I listed myself for a Soldier.
1765 BLACKSTONE Comm. I. 414 If any officer and soldier..shall desert, or list in any other regiment.
1827 HALLAM Const. Hist. (1876) II. ix. 138 Whether a thoroughly upright and enlightened man would rather have listed under the royal or parliamentary standard.
1893 STEVENSON Catriona 164 He listed at last for a sodger.
b. transf. and fig.
1650 FULLER Pisgah I. vii. 19 They lost their names by listing themselves under some other people.
1658 Whole Duty of Man, Private Devotions (1684) 173 Having now anew listed my self under his banner.
1694 DRYDEN Love Triumph. IV. i, You..who are listing yourself into the honourable company of cuckolds.
1732 POPE Ess. Man II. 98 Passions, though selfish, if their means be fair, List under Reason.
1738 WESLEY Psalms II. ii, The Rulers list themselves his Foes.
1791 BURKE App. Whigs Wks. VI. 254 To list themselves, and even to take a lead, with the party which they think most likely to prevail.
a1845 HOOD Irish Schoolm. xvii, When first the scholar lists in learning's train.
1845 STEPHEN Comm. Laws Eng. (1874) I. 3 Merely that they [M.P.'s] may list under party banners.
ADDITIONS SERIES 1997
list, v.4
Add: [1.] f. intr. Of goods: to be catalogued or advertised for sale at or for a price. orig. U.S.
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1935 Industr. Equipment News Apr. 34/2 Polishing machine... Prices list from $91 to $191.]
1952 Automobile Topics Jan. 1 Aero Wing, Super deluxe two-door sedan, lists at $1,903.50.
a1961 Industr. Equipment News in
Webster s.v., The wrench alone lists at $3.
1974 Cleveland (Ohio)
Plain Dealer 19 Oct. 3-
D (Advt.), They list for $300 to $500 less than comparable '75's.
1987 Stamps Feb 23/2 The item..lists in Stanley Gibbons at £8,500 in used condition and is unpriced as unused.
1994 J. BARTH Once upon Time 32 Maryland waterfront real-estate values have so escalated that those homely, often cheek-by-jowl stock items may list for half a million.
g. trans. Computing. To display or print out (a program, the contents of a file, etc.); to produce a listing of. Also, to transmit (a program or file) to a peripheral where it can be displayed or printed.
1958 [implied in *LISTING vbl. n.2 5]. 1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 93 List,..to print every relevant item of input data on the general basis of one line of print per card. 1979 P. J. BROWN Writing Interactive Compilers & Interpreters ii. 46 A further feature of interactive working that differentiates it from batch working is that a typical user will frequently want to list all or part of his program, especially if he has been doing a lot of editing. 1984 Creative Computing June 182/2 Now we have a resource of 167 article citations, dealing with various aspects of computer crime that we can list. 1986 ZX Computing Monthly Oct. 74/3 In LISTing the program to its network port, the Spectrum collects 256 bytes in a buffer first; only when the buffer is full is the data sent down the line.
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