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enrank en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + rank.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To place in ranks or in order.
   • The souldiers all sat downe enrank’t, each by his armes and horse, That then lay downe, and cool’d their hoofes. [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 90:
   • No leisure had he to enrank his men; He wanted pikes to set before his archers; Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck’d out of hedges They pitched in the ground confusedly, To keep the horsemen off from breaking in. 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
   • 1624, William Camden, The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland, London: Richard Whitaker, Anno 1568, p. 46, When I had againe forgiuen them, behold, they laid vpon me a new crime, which themselues had wrought, and signed with their owne hands; and shortly after were enranked in battell against me in the field […]
2. (figuratively, obsolete) To classify (someone in a particular group); to enroll, register.
   • 1630, William Vaughan, The Arraignment of Slander Perjury Blasphemy, and other Malicious Sinnes, London: Francis Constable, Lineament 16, p. 174, Courteous countrey-men, vnderstanding spirits, whose hap it is to be enrankt into impanelles […]
   • […] hee begat the sonne who is enranked in this genealogicall rolle. 1610, John Healey, transl., St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, London, page 585:
   • […] thy Lord or Maister enranks thee with the deceaved sort, and so forgets thee! 1609, Simon Grahame, The Anatomie of Humors, Edinburgh, page 19:

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