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disrank, v.|dɪsˈræŋk|
[f. dis- 7 c + rank n.]
†1. trans. To throw out of rank or into disorder. Obs.
1597Daniel Civ. Wars viii. xvi, The rangèd horse break out..Disrank the troops; set all in disarray. a1616Beaum. & Fl. Lawes of Candy i. i, I..Was he that first dis-rankt their woods of Pikes. 1654Trapp Comm. Ps. l. 3 The army was dis-ranked and wandred any way.
†b. intr. (for refl.) To fall out of ranks, fall into disorder. Obs.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. i. Abraham 325 Too-too-tired, some at last dis-rank. 1629J. Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 150 They disranke, and are routed.
†2. transf. and fig. (trans.) To disorder, disarrange, confuse. Obs.
1602Dekker Satiro-Mastix K ij a, Out of thy part already; foil'd the scene; Disrank'd the lines. 1614J. Cooke Tu Quoque in Hazl. Dodsley XI. 264 You shall march a whole day..and not disrank one hair of your physiognomy. 1628Ford Lover's Mel. iv. ii, Throngs of rude divisions huddle on, And do disrank my brain from peace and sleep.
3. To deprive of one's rank, to reduce to a lower rank; to degrade.
1599Daniel Let. of Octavia Arg. Wks. (1717) I. 69 He arms his Forces, either to reduce Antony to the Rank of his Estate, or else to disrank him out of State and all. 1615A. Nicholes Marr. & Wiving vi. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 263 Thou wilt disrank thyself, or single out [a wife] from the too common shame and abuse in this kind [of women]. 1894[see disrating].
Hence disˈranked ppl. a., disˈranking vbl. n.
1606Marston Fawne i. i, Wilde longings, or the least of disranct shapes. 1627May Lucan v. (1631) 24 The letter's lost in their disranked wings. 1629J. Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 179 note, So the dis-ranking of the English lost all to the Normans. |