单词 | unrank |
释义 | unrankv. transitive. Originally: to throw into disarray or disorder. Now: to remove from or deprive of ranking. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > disarrange [verb (transitive)] disarraya1387 difforma1425 disrank1602 discompose1611 unrank1611 dismarshall1630 deform1725 disarrange1744 disrange1775 derange1777 misarrange1815 upsteer1889 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desfiler,..to vnranke, disorder; put off a file. 1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. xli. 182 [They] charged the Christians through and through, till they scarce left a ranke [not] unranked. 1698 D. Jones Theatre of Wars 30 Being thereby disordered, unrank'd and routed; the whole Army in a short time was totally defeated. 1728 R. Spencer tr. J. B. Bossuet Introd. Universal Hist. ii. 164 They unite, or separate, as they please; then unrank easily, and come together again without any trouble. 1826 Princ. Roots French Lang. 31 Thus to degrade is literally to unrank a person. 1915 F. B. Dickerson Practical Law & Business Guide 1116 To be known as the friend of vile men, of dishonest men, soon unranks you with good men. 1998 D. Heap in J. Lema & E. Treviño Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages 236 Thus ‘unranking’ two classes of clitics. 2009 E. Lindner Emotion & Confl. Introd. p. xx Ranking the essence of a person's worthiness as low or high cannot be achieved at the same time as unranking it as equal. Derivatives un'ranking n. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desarrengement, an vnranking, disordering, disarraying. 1972 Federal Suppl. (U.S.) 338 326/1 The unranking of the finalists..was an express violation of GPO requirements. 2009 E. Lindner Emotion & Confl. Introd. p. xx Ranking and unranking cannot be done concurrently. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1611 |
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