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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