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enranks

enranks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of enrank.

Meaning of enrank

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.
    • 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.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]...
  2. (figuratively, obsolete) To classify (someone in a particular group); to enroll, register.
    • […] thy Lord or Maister enranks thee with the deceaved sort, and so forgets thee!1609, Simon Grahame, The Anatomie of Humors, Edinburgh, page 19

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Enranks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of enrank.

Words near enranks in the dictionary

  1. enramadas
  2. enramycin
  3. enrank
  4. enranked
  5. enranking
  6. enranks
  7. enrapt
  8. enrapture
  9. enraptured
  10. enrapturement
  11. enrapturements

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