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In some senses, enrank is marked as obsolete, figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
enrank
verb 2
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3ADJ.
all
VERB + ENRANK
sat
ENRANK + NOUN
men, t
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verb
1
To place in ranks or in order.
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.
2
To classify (someone in a particular group); to enroll, register.
[…] 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.
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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
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The souldiers all sat downe enrank’t, each by his armes and horse, That then lay downe, and cool’d their hoofes.
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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
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