disrank
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From dis- + rank. Compare derange.
Verb[edit]
disrank (third-person singular simple present disranks, present participle disranking, simple past and past participle disranked)
- (transitive, obsolete) To degrade from rank.
- (transitive, obsolete) To throw out of rank or into confusion.
- 1601 (first performance), Thomas Dekker, Satiro-mastix. Or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Edward White, […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature K2, recto:
- No girle, knovvſt thou not hovv to anſvver him? / VVhy then the field is loſt, and he rides home, / Like a great conquerour; not anſvver him? / Out of thy part already? foylde the Sceane? / Diſranckt the lynes? diſarm'd the action?
References[edit]
“disrank”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.