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▪ I. ranged, ppl. a.1|reɪndʒd| [f. range v.1 + -ed1.] 1. Set in line, ranked. † a ranged battle: a pitched battle.
1530Palsgr. 678/2 It is a goodly thyng to se a ranged batayle. 1609Daniel Civ. Wars viii. xvi, The ranged horse breake out. 1680G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 11 That Army of Saints, which fought the Kings Forces on Pentland-hills in a ranged Battel 1666. 2. transf. Systematically arranged; ordered.
1869Tennyson Pelleas & Ettarre 152 in Idylls 313 Whose lightest whisper moved him more Than all the ranged reasons of the world. 3. = rangé a. 2.
1899G. Kegan Paul Memories v. 142, I have loved less many more ranged and orderly men. ▪ II. † ranged, ppl. a.2 Obs. [f. range v.2] Sifted; made of sifted flour.
1538Elyot, Panis secundarius, raunged bread, or chete breadde, or crybell breade. 1559Will of P. Kedwellye (Somerset Ho.), To be made in penye Ranged breade. 1598Florio, Pane di ceruita,..choise bread, ranged bread. |