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English
Etymology
From en- + rank.
Verb
enrank (third-person singular simple present enranks, present participle enranking, simple past and past participle enranked)
- (obsolete) To place in ranks or in order.
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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.
, Homer, “Book III”, in Geo 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: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
- (figurative, obsolete) To classify (someone in a particular group); to enroll, register.
1609, Simon Grahame, The Anatomie of Humors, Edinburgh, page 19:[…] thy Lord or Maister enranks thee with the deceaved sort, and so forgets thee!
1610, John Healey, transl., St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, London, page 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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