enrank

Example Sentences

• "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 […]"