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enrank

verb · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

verb

Meaning 1

To place in ranks or in order.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • 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 [...]

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2

verb

Meaning 2

To classify (someone in a particular group); to enroll, register.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively, obsolete

Examples

  • 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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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From en- + rank.