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are entred in For the use of to be with intransitive verbs see, if needful, Abbott, § 295; and for ‘in’ used for into, Ibid., § 159. entred in W. A. Wright: That is, initiated into, admitted to; and so, acquainted with. Compare ‘man-enter'd’ in II, ii, 107. The term is perhaps borrowed from the Universities, where it still survives, and this is rendered more probable by the recurrence of the word ‘proceed,’ which has also a technical academic sense. An undergraduate enters the University and ‘proceeds’ to a degree, and the taking a degree in any faculty, such as arts, law, physic or divinity, is called ‘proceeding’ in that faculty. Bacon says of travellers (Essay xviii.): ‘He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to schoole, and not to travaile,’ where entrance = initiation, preliminary instruction.
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D. The Tragedie of Coriolanus. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company.
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