Definition: recorded

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

recorded
     adj 1: set down or registered in a permanent form especially on
            film or tape for reproduction; "recorded music" [ant:
            live]
     2: made a matter of official record; "a properly recorded deed
        to the property" [ant: unrecorded]
     3: (of securities) having the owner's name entered in a
        register; "recorded holders of a stock"
     4: recorded or listed in a directory; "a recorded number"

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recorded; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Recording.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind,
   F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- +
   cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See Cordial, Heart.]
   1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
      [Obs.] ``I it you record.'' --Chaucer.

   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.