enrange

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ range. Compare enrank, arrange.

Verb

enrange (third-person singular simple present enranges, present participle enranging, simple past and past participle enranged)

1. (obsolete) To arrange in order; to rank.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     As fair Diana in fresh summer's day
     Beholds her nymphs enranged in shady wood

2. (obsolete) To rove over; to range.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     In all this forrest and wyld wooddie raine
     Where, as this day I was enraunging it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enrange”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Greenan