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.
    • 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]:
      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.
    • [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:
      The souldiers all sat downe enrank’t, each by his armes and horse,
      That then lay downe, and cool’d their hoofes.
      The spelling has been modernized.
    • 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. (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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