Meaning of enrank | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To place in ranks or in order.
   obsolete
2. To classify (someone in a particular group); to enroll, register.
   figuratively, obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“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 […]”

“[…] thy Lord or Maister enranks thee with the deceaved sort, and so forgets thee!”

“[…] 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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