enrank

English

Etymology

en- + rank

Verb

enrank (third-person singular simple present enranks, present participle enranking, simple past and past participle enranked)

  1. (obsolete) To place in ranks or in order.
    • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act I, Scene 1,
      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.
    • c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets, London: Nathaniel Butter, Book 3, p. 44,
      The souldiers all sat downe enrank’t, each by his armes and horse,
      That then lay downe, and cool’d their hoofes.
    • 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.
    • 1609, Simon Grahame, The Anatomie of Humors, Edinburgh, p. 19,
      [] thy Lord or Maister enranks thee with the deceaved sort, and so forgets thee!
    • 1610, John Healey (translator), St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, London, p. 585,
      [] hee begat the sonne who is enranked in this genealogicall rolle.
    • 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 []

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